Fairytale Girls

• Live in fairytale stories
• Where they dwell in manors
• Deep in the woods far and away
• Sleeping in ashen beds
• Dreaming of princes riding
• White stallions who will take
• Them away to their castles
• High on mountaintops

• Fairytale girls obey stepmothers
• Who dress them in rags
• Force them to draw water
• Set tables day and night
• Sleep by the fireplace with dogs
• Knit scarves from straw
• Spin wool into pearls
• Bake bread from clay

• Fairytale girls sing songs of love
• Sing songs of despair
• Sing songs of lost dreams
• While tears flow from eyes
• Eyes like sapphires and diamonds
• Eyes like emeralds and rubies
• Eyes that shine like stars
• While tears bead on cheeks

• Fairytale girls run away
• Far and away into forests
• Where they sing along rivers
• Roving in fields of wheat
• Coming into cottages at night
• Made of chocolate and cheese
• All alight with candlesticks
• Burning on gilded plates

• Fairytale girls speak to
• Old widows with teacups
• Tea spiced with black lotus
• Poisoned with spider venom
• Sip it while it’s boiling hot
• While the old widows uncover
• Their black rags and reveal
• Themselves as the stepmothers

• Fairytale girls lie in glass coffins
• Hair curled around their cheeks
• Eyelids covered in dew
• Dreaming of kisses from men
• Dreaming of waking up to ride
• Off with them to their castles
• Beyond the scarlet horizon
• Where they will be free

• Only their princes never come
• Nor do his lips seek hers--never
• Fairytale girls lie alone
• Dreaming dreams forever and ever