POETRY: 'Love's Fairytale' by Ana (The Trinity) Hagins

Once upon a time

I heard that happily ever after

only existed in bed time stories

of princesses with wicked step mothers,

a handsome prince on a white stallion

coming to save them from the dragon guarded castle,

and a fairy god mother with all the answers to their problems.

Truth is,

I am not a princess.

I don’t have a wicked step mother who poisons my fruit,

I don’t intend on ever having a man climb up the side of my house by my hair,

nor do I know a fantastical creature

that can turn a plain country pumpkin into a golden carriage.

Crazy, huh?

But it’s real.

Though I may not be locked away somewhere far far away,

I am awaiting true love’s kiss.

You know, that kiss that awakes you 

from all those other nightmare relationships you’ve had.

Unfortunately,

I don’t have a short stature,

gray-haired woman with wings by my side

that’ll sing non-sensical tunes

to make me feel better

after having my step sisters rent the dress

the mice from the attic made me.

But I do have a God

that has more than twinkling dust for power,

who’ll bring me my prince charming

when He thinks I’m ready.

So until then,

I’ll lay in wait like sleeping beauty

because to wait on Him means to wait on him.

I’m no Cinderella,

but I do believe in happily ever after,

even after the clock strikes 12.

In due time,

God will lead the man of my dreams to me

for at that very moment

I will be the only fair maiden

in all the land

whose foot fits the glass slipper he found.