Sweetheart, let me tell ya
I don’t need a Cinderella,
no coach from lowly pumpkin
or fairy godmother will do,

Rapunzel’s hair from prison tower,
no magic lamp or ring of power
and I don’t agree it’s freedom
having nothing left to lose,

I know that I’m not much
but if you think that I’m enough
then we’ll be happy ever after,
writing our story me and you

we can steer clear of poisoned apples,
fight the dragons, choose our battles,
but sweetheart, what kind of a halfwit
goes out dancing in glass shoes?

*****

Lindsay McLeod writes: “I wrote this one years ago, for the sweetest person I’ve ever met, after promising that I would write her a poem every week. In the end they filled a book, writing just shy of a hundred for her.”

‘Fairytale’ was first published in Pulsebeat Poetry Journal.

Lindsay McLeod lives by the Port in South Australia where he is driven by his cattle dog, Mary. Lindsay’s most recently published work can be found in Rat’s Ass Review, Snakeskin, and Meniscus. Currently, he is said to be considering a life of crime to support his poetry habit.

“Cinderella Glass Slipper” by Tsts Sheng is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.