Once upon a time
the princesses in the land, didn't get their happily ever afters
more like they didn't live happily.
They didn't sing nor dance nor had fun.
They were miserable.
Sleeping Beauty,
slept and slept because no prince came for her,
her body rot, along with her castle, as if it was not really there.
Belle,
was eaten by the beast.
While she yelled in anguish , Gaston watched smirking.
Little Mermaid,
turned to sea foams, all her sacrifices wasted.
The whole kingdom forgot her existence.
Cinderella,
her fairy godmother didn't arrive.
She lived her whole life as a scullery maid, beaten and abused.
Snow White,
who ate the apple,
decayed on the woods.
No one bothered to find her corpse,
not even the animals and the seven dwarfs.
What if there were really no happily ever after?
Only our imaginations, trying to grasp hope, like trying to breath carbon dioxide.
