She was sleeping
Talking
Walking
Across the stage
Piano player
With no one to turn the page
And she didn’t know
The note that was supposed to come
Next
She was lost in the music
Embarrassed
She wanted to run
Stress
Was turning her thoughts in circles
This was the last day
Halfway done
Everything moving
Like molasses and turtles
The problem with fairy tales
The real ones
They hurt you
Take away everything you hope for
Diminish all it’s worth
The dragon wins at every turn
Every idea
She’s able to burn
And you’ve waited
For the tables to spin
To that one chance
That you’ve finally earned
But what you get
Is the death
Of your hopes and dreams
In a urn
Waiting
Didn’t work
Now demoralized
No friends in a lonely world
Parents who will never realise
Their only child
Is a lonely girl
Struggling
Trapped
And like every story
Changed by Walt Disney
If the parents
Are still alive
Have survived
Then actions were always meant
To save the sleeping beauty
Save her from herself
The dangers of the world
Without realising
They’d cripple her instead
Increase her fear
Of what’s ahead
Of Everything
Monsters
Especially
Them the most
The fire breather
And the Gollum of unbreakable stone
Not realising that her prison
Was their home
Of safety
Where no danger could reach
Except a prince
Who would rape her
While she was asleep
Claiming to be a saviour
From a witch
That son of a
Which brings it back
To the fact
That she’s unsure
Of her own instincts
She can’t play the next key
Afraid she’ll play it wrong
So she starts over the song
Sleeping
Talking
Walking
Across the stage
Piano player
With no one
To turn the page