Literature
Once Upon a Time...
The pages from our childhood
Seep ink into our minds
Calligraphy and oil paint
Sketch “Once Upon a Time”s.
So we long to live a story
Worthy of growing old,
Worthy of quills and parchment,
Of pages gilded gold.
For some it seems so easy,
For princesses and knights,
To run into adventure,
To pick the noble fights.
Yet, dragons that breathe fire,
An old and wicked witch,
Have no power to dishearten
Like a skeptic’s bait-and-switch.
The magic of a story,
Is not in words of ink,
It’s not in singing maidens,
Or potions you can drink.
It’s in the fascination
Of secret worlds unknown,
Of sheer impossibility,
Of lov