The Princess Who Killed Her Prince

Before

Once upon a time

There was once a princess

With long golden hair

Cascading over her slender body

The room she breathed in for so many years

A room with lush, velvet carpets

Patterns of every kind

And carefully carved furniture

To set her perfect tushy down on

This room she waited for her prince

And one day he came

Looking over him from 15 feet up

Through the tower’s magnificent windows

They locked eyes

She was confused

Expensive cloth wasn’t wrapped around his

Muscular body

He didn’t have a dozen horses

Or even a carriage

Dirt and grime embedded his skin

Hair was uneven, looking as if

He bathed in mud

He held out his hands

Rough, calloused, from years of hard work

Eyes, the colour of the grass she longed to touch

Held so much hope, and

She shuddered – happiness –

Shy smile covered his face

As time passed, he grew nervous,

And yet his hand still asked

In a million silent words

For hers

No

NoNoNoNoNo

This she, Royal Princess of Everything,

Waited so long for

Her crystal blue eyes darkened into ice

Never

With a flick of the wrist

And a swish of her hair

She ridded him of her sight

And suddenly

A loud crack sounded

Has the sky fallen? A cannon blown?

She raced to the window

And saw him

Shoulders slumped, gray eyes

Pain

His heart like a sheet of glass

Ran a long line through

Creeping and inching

The breeze slowed down, birds hushed

And no one dared blink

The heart burst into a million pieces

The horrible noise was unbearable

Princess covered her ears

And it felt,

Like the shards of glass

Tried to break her stone soul, unsuccessfully

All over the stained grass

Lay his heart

And his fallen body

With the gaping hole

Dead, foreign word floating into her mind

She stared at the glass

Strewn everywhere

Reflecting the sky, hopeful,

The sun angrily blinded

The princess with rays of hot light

She shut her eyes closed

And turned away

 She sat on the expensive cold bed

Lonely, and waited

And waited

And ate

And slept

And breathed

 And waited