Like a Fairy Tale Ending

A Poem

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drowning —
that’s what I did when you left me
at the altar where dreams met nightmares
in a heady mix of incense
and unexamined fury.

oh, we were lost lovers —
star-crossed at best, perhaps,
because we knew how to play the game
and how to break each other’s hearts
like it was just child’s play.

maybe I might have been your Snow White
on a better day when I fell asleep
in a field of imagined lilacs,
far from an evil queen’s tricks
and away from all that toxic love.

someday soon I might realize
just what I really need
versus what I crave
because I’m needy
and so hopelessly lost.

tomorrow may be
the night I take to Cinderella’s midnight
and flee from your careful labyrinth
of mind games and sweet-nothings
because I deserve so much more.