Happily Never After

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And she spends all her time kissing boys

On the corner of Ever After Road.

She’s looking for her prince, you see,

But all she’s found are toads.

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Her dress disappearing as the clock strikes twelve,

She’ll spend the night with any (not so) Charming;

Making creases in the royal bed sheets because

She’s oh so desperate for a happy ending.

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But come every morning after

Her glass slippers are shattered along with her heart

When she realizes her fleeting fairy tale

Was just a Happily Never After from the start.

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Hopelessly (romantic), she scampers back home

To where the cinders know her name.

They tell her she’s too old for make-believe

But it’s the only way to make her forget the pain.

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And oh mirror, mirror on the wall,

She cringes at her pallid-faced reality.

What’s seven more years of bad luck

When grim(m) closings are already a normality?

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They say, “if the slipper fits, fall in love”,

And she wasn't one for something small.

She threw herself from the tallest tower

And her happy ending didn’t survive the fall.

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With poisoned-apple eyes

And bloodied, tattered wrists,

She’s a damsel in distress, but

She won’t (can’t) be saved by any prince’s kiss.

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A/N: Please review! I want some feedback and suggestions on this one. I struggled w/ it, but I hope you can't tell.