Dear Prince

Fairytales… we’ve all grown up listening to them.

But close your eyes and think for a moment. Don’t most of them involve a damsel in distress and a heroic prince, who saves her from all miseries? Don’t most of them have a Happily Ever After?

Now close your eyes again. Is that how real life works? Is there ever a perfect ending? Do you love your prince charming equally each day of the week?

This little poem is just to get an alternate narrative out there. Under the shroud of every Happily Ever After, there lie countless struggles, disagreements, arguments, tough questions and tears:

Dear Prince

When I first met you

You were a different man

Or maybe I was stupid

Dumbstruck by the cupid

To not see what everyone can

Dear Prince

When I first met you

You had words and thoughts of your own

I took you to be tender

My fire’s perfect fender

You knew family and home

But Dear Prince

When I meet you today?

I feel it’s some other

It definitely is not you

He has your voice, its true

But his thoughts mirror the queen mother

Dear Prince

When I meet you today

I am so uncertain, unsure

Of whether you will ever

Stand up for your forever

For something we thought so pure

Dear Prince

You’re probably raging by now

I’ll clip this short, and wait some time

For when you see reason

This won’t be treason

You only need remember the rhyme