Her once upon a time stared with her walls tumbling down
As she slowly dragged herself from the wreckage
She glanced around and her sight was unclear
Her eyes caked with the grime and rock of a destroyed tower
But it wasn't really a tower
It was a cardboard cut out
Painted with greys and reds and golds
And her eyes were really faltered with false declarations of forever
The left overs of too much dress up and too much pretend
Thrown down upon her as if to pin her to the Earth and never let a single breath slip through her lips
She got to her feet and walked through every scrape of pain that had caused her internal bleeding
She walked through every rock thrown to her, unable to be caught, just leaving various colors of bruises instead
She began a journey to find somewhere better
And even as her heart began to clear and the dirt was washed from her eyes by the salt of her tears
She never once looked back on the damage that had been done to her happily ever after