"Once-upon-a-time" go
the fairy-tales of old.
Happily-ever-after and Prince Charming
are how they're told.

Reality has no story.
Unwritten.
Changed
by choice
by action and reaction.
Empty pages
skipped and
torn.

Ink in the pen smeared
scrawled and
scratched
onto the page
our life.
Happiness
spurred then disappears
like shadows-there
then gone.