The Fairy Tale

 

You wanted to be for me

The Prince that little girls

Dream will come someday,

To kiss them sweetly away

To "Happily ever after."

 

I believed in you

Because you truly seemed

To understand a woman's

Secret visions and romance

So few men ever see.

 

We played like Cinderella

And you the Prince so charming,

Incredulous were we

At finding You and Me,

Those summer months bewitching.

 

But my midnight bells

Struck without a warning

And from the darkness came

The past and all its shame

You hid from me so well.

 

Fairy tales don't end

With tales of broken hearts

And a prince who used

A princess, without rue,

To make another jealous.

 

But tears you left behind

In your haste to leave a dream,

They cannot wash away

The ecstasy sublime

Of "Once upon a time"

That lived for you and me.

 

 

B. Benjamin

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