A faerie with eyes like glass and water

Carried away a kingdom’s daughter

With the promise of a finer place

Where the girl would dwell with the faerie race

Sarah grew up with hair like gold

And eyes the bewitched with a story told

A mind as sharp as a sewing needle

And a love for every leaf and beetle

The faeries raised her to do everything right

To shun all the darkness, to embrace the light

With a brown mouse named Kip who rode in her shirt

She feared no hard labor, nor dust or dirt

She was fine and charming, but her thirteenth year

Was riddled with questions of how she got here

She was not a faerie, with wings and a wand,

And yet she lived in a castle by a rainbow pond!

The faerie queen told her of the father the king

And gave her the choice- human life or a faerie ring

Young Sarah still needed much time for her choice

But declared in the end with her musical voice

"Kip and I are to home, though faerie land is where I roam

Father's who I need to know, so home is where I need to go."

The faeries were sad at their human girl's choice,

But her wishes mattered, and they had been voiced.

So Sarah went home at the age of sixteen

But she could not live in both worlds, she was caught between

Her loving dear father who cared for her only

And the faeries who raised her; and so she was lonely

Her father saw fit that legion of men

That knocked on the door again and again

Should try their hand at the wooing of said mademoiselle

This made poor Sarah's existence a true living hell!

They thought her a prize that would cook, kiss, and clean

None gave the first thought to her words, what they mean

She knew from then on that her love would not start

Until she met one that was right for her heart!

Then one spring day when she rose from her sleep

And saw a young man who was tending the sheep

She went to the fields dressed in clothes of plain brown

And the man soon reversed her undoable frown

She went home that day with her heart full of glory,

But that is not the end to the sheepherder's story!

He came to the castle at noontime the morrow,

And asked for a servant whom he could borrow

Sarah dressed in her browns and hurried to go

But her father saw her and the answer was no

But the sheepherder, Daniel, climbed to her room that eve

And Sarah declared that he never should leave

But such as the way in the days of that time

The two youth's love could exist but through friendship and rhyme

Eventually Miss Sarah's heart grew so numb

That she thought she would die if their time did not come

But her father was staunch in his absolute "no",

Saying she was too high for the young Daniel's low.

But their love was too strong for a mere king's dictation,

And Sarah and Daniel soon had their salvation!

They ran away from her home, soul mates side by side

To faeries, who had their arms open wide

They married and settled them in a castle of gold

That far to this day there are stories still told

About magic and parties and a girl who once said

"If you haven't got love then you’re better off dead

Because love is a simple yet splendorous thing"

And at this point she's kiss a magnificent ring

And look at her husband with love in her eyes

"To the one whom you love, you are never a prize

But a treasure to cherish, to love and to hold"

The sheepherder and princess in a castle of gold

Remember Sarah and Daniel whenever you see the sun,

And you're scared that you will never find The One,

It just takes some time and a lot of new faces,

Remember to look in not-obvious places

And those who seem perfect are not so by far

But flaws are OK because they're WHO YOU ARE

And magic and faeries can never change you

So remember that nobody else can, too!

Finally remember that true love is real,

Remember to love and to laugh and to FEEL,

Because who are we really if we haven't a smile?

Goodbye, and ponder this poem for a while.