Our Fairytale

When I was just a little girl
In dresses pink & white

I learned of princesses in faraway lands

And their handsome charming knights

 

The stories, they’d all end the same

With “happily ever afters”

And as I grew, as little girls do,

I’d dream of my own ending chapter

I’d dream the days and nights away

And doodle in my notebooks

Sketches of my future prince

Complete with stunningly good looks

As years passed by, the dreaming stopped

Out of the clouds I had to come

Charming princes just weren’t real

I’d have to settle for some average bum

 

It was April 14, 2006

I was seventeen years old

That’s the day my thinking changed,

The day my prince entered my world

 

He’s charming, polite, too good to be true

He’s funny, so sweet, and so cute

He’s playful and witty, a barrel of laughs

And he’s always a flippin’ hoot

 

I’m his angel, his princess, the love of his life

He reminds me every day

“Together forever” we tell one another

No matter what life throws our way

 

Living on bliss, walking on sunshine

My life then a fairytale

Dreams do come true, magic does happen

True fairytale love is for real

 

But suddenly the world stopped spinning

The sky came crashing down

My heart lay shattered in my chest

While in my tears I drowned

 

Goodbye to my prince charming

Goodbye to fairytales

Curse you Mr. Disney

You taught falsely “love prevails”

 

As much as I despised that man

Creating such false hope for me

I drowned myself in all his films

The only things that helped me breathe

 

I soon discovered something grand

My eyes and mind were opened wide

Never had I seen before

The message Walt had seemed to hide

The Little Mermaid lost her voice,

For love’s true kiss she had to fight

Belle was captive by a beast

Living constantly in fright

 

Tiana kissed a talking frog

And wound up worse for ware

Poor Cinderella lived a wretched life

With a family that for her never cared

 

Snow White was stuck deep in the woods,

And poisoned by a witch

From ogre to princess, day to night

Fiona’s always forced to switch

 

Jasmine had that jerk Jafar

Who tried to keep her from her man

The feisty Meg was bound to Hades

A forced puppet in his evil plan

 

Don’t you see what I now see?

Don’t you understand?

Fairytales truly do exist,

But there’s work to reach the end

 

Every princess has her mountain

She’s got an obstacle to climb

So it’s no surprise at all, my prince,

I’ve got to work to call you mine

 

I don’t just get to close my eyes,

Or breathe in deep and make a wish

Just as the Little Mermaid had to do:

I must fight for true love’s kiss

The days are long, the nights much longer

My heart aches every minute

But this life I’ve been living still’s a fairytale

I must just open my eyes and admit it.

 

I now never question, I now never doubt

If we’ll have our happily ever after

I now understand there’s just a mountain to climb

Before we reach our own ending chapter

 

We’ll grow old together, make lots of babies

Be sealed in the temple forever

We’ll have lots of puppies, play piano together

In a love that won’t die now or never

Forever my prince, forever I’m yours

Living this life that’s too good to be true

Forever my heart rests safe in your chest

Forever we’re one not two