Not So Fairy Tales

Snow White

"Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is the fairest of them all?"
"Alas, sweet queen, it is not you
Snow White's beauty is yours times two."
The ice queen screamed and snarled and snapped
Wishing that the girl was still trapped.
"Mirror mirror on the wall
Where is the fairest of them all?"
"She is not far, my dear queen
she is with men as small as you've ever seen..."

The ice queen smiled and packed away
the magic mirror that had saved the day
For mirrors riddles and rhyming lines
have shown the way and shown the signs
of where the fairest girl did hide.
With dwarfs she though she had allied,
Snow Whites naive trusting mind
made her slow and made her blind
to enemies she lived next door to
For dwarfs were more evil than she knew.

In the forest deep in a cave, Snow White
slept while the dwarfs whispered away the night
talking of their plans and deeds
to gain money and their other needs
And slowly a dark idea formed
And into an old woman, two dwarfs transformed.
They crept out to a farmers house
and quiet, quiet as a mouse
they stole a single red apple, then
let it soak in a poisoned glen.

The next morning, Snow White awoke
to smiling dwarfs around a fire smoke
they handed her breakfast with a small laugh
And watched, eyes glinting, as she cut it in half
bit by bit she started to chew
until she fell to the floor, lips turning blue.
They shut her up in a coffin of glass
And pushed it down the forest path.
Into the city, to the market square
and starting the bidding on the girl so fair.

And so the queen called out her gold
thinking her money meant the girl would be sold
but she didn't expect the young males voice
Ah, she thought, this must be Snow's little love choice.
So her voice rose with the price of the woman
His coin for love, and the queens for her plan.
They fought and fought for life and beauty
For vanity and for hearts duty
until the Queen lost her temper
and stabbed Prince through the heart to win the splendour.

And so the gold exchanged hands
From royalty to men of scams
And Show white was carried indoors
barely breathings- a living corpse.
But even that would not last for long
Snow Whites life was not that strong.
And as the queen took her fairest skin
she started to laugh and started to grin
For only one questioned remained to be answered
and now she knew, that question she had mastered:

"Mirror Mirror on the wall...
Now whose the fairest of them all?"