The Fairytale Wakes

63 - Stories on a Moving Train

Here's to the other happy ever afters

The one's we never see (there's more than one,

more than the boy and girl in love

or princes and princesses) yes, the ones

where the children don't go home.

They don't go back to the loveless home

But Gretel becomes a cook

Hansel a magician

And they are never lost again.

Where Cinderella kept her shoe

And from that one magic night

Sparked the courage to start her own life

First helping out the innkeeper, and then

Starting her own transformation business

Specialising in making poor girls

Feel like princesses.

Where one of the dwarves was medically trained

And dislodged the apple, and Snow White

Learned to love roaming the forest, and caves

And coal dust on her face, and a host of brothers

(So she was never alone again).

Yes, here's to the other happy ever afters

The ones that give me hope, I stand

In love, married to a wonderful man

But my (our) life stretches on, and happiness

Seems a snatched glimpse on a moving train

And I want more stories to read on the journey.