Cinderella: A Poem

Cinderella:  A Poem


Cloudy gray skies
across the land lies
in truth for today
and in metaphor sad to say
it seems that magic is gone from the world
technology has spread unfurled
the sense of wonder has been lost
but we're too busy to see the cost
dashing along the street
busy hands and busy feet
phones at our fingertips
speakers have replaced lips
"Love" and "courage" are only words
a flight of fancy like passing birds.
A unicorn- what is that?
Talk of fairies- we say scat!
For we're all grown up you see
don't talk to us as if we're only 3.
That age is past!
Magic wands- get out fast!
Carriages don't grow from pumpkins
you mistake us for country bumpkins.
Enchanted balls and glass slippers
we talk like drunken skippers
whose ships have crashed on the rocks
leaving us to haunt these docks.


And so we stay under these skies so gray
wishing it were another day.


But Cinderella saw the world not only as it was
but as she wanted it to be
which gave her courage amidst much misery
Have courage and be kind!
Wise words from her mother's mind.
Words she kept each day to heart
slowly working magic to impart
a prince she would impress
with her heart and mind
not just a dress.


Those who have courage and are kind
they break those dark spells that bind
it's not that we've stopped believing in magic you see
it's just that we take dark arts for the only reality.
We've stopped seeing "love" and "courage" as things that actually be
and only view them as fantasy
It's not only princes but we who need to be awakened
or else this world will become ever forsaken.
Oh Cinderella! Come and kiss us all
make this world a beautiful ball
Help us once again see that wondrous magic so grand
And may courage and kindness fall across this land.



-A poem written by Christopher
 Tuesday March 24th 2015
  inspired by seeing the
  Kenneth Branagh directed
  version of
  Disney's Cinderella
  today.


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