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Happily Never After (Oh Noetry)

When you left, you took my heart with you and the two of you skipped off into the woods of my past

The ruddy drops my heart left behind were eventually gobbled up, like highly metaphorical breadcrumbs, by the birds of time

And like those two children lost in the forest, neither of you will ever find your way back... to me.

 

I'll fashion a new heart out of wood to occupy the vacancy left in my chest

And it will hope to some day become a real heart

But it will never be able to receive the fairydust of love that would enable it to fly

Instead, it will only be a stiff, wooden heart

And there will always be strings attached.

 

Perhaps some day a raven will fly through my window to keep me company

And though he may only speak one word, I know that it will always be a word of truth

And I know that he will never leave me

Probably because he feels my pain.

 

The pain of growing up

Of not being able to fly away to a place where I can stay a child forever

Your memory will always be the captain of my new wooden heart

And the hook that drags me back to reality

when I start thinking that maybe we could have worked.

 

We were doomed from the start

As if I were trapped in an ocean of longing

And you walked on the dry land of my desire

Always unattainable to me for my inability to adapt to a new world.

 

In the beginning, our love was like a carpet

Covering all things, and enchanted to lift us from the ground

And carry us through the world together

But you stained that carpet with the grapejuice of treachery

And now I am left emotionally unconscious

Always waiting for the kiss that will never come

To wake me from my slumber.

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ethan-taylor
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Jan 17, 2010
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