What Ever Happened...

To storybook romances
And happily ever after.
To forbidden affairs
And secret midnight rendezvous.

To damsels in distress
Who let down their hair
And knights in shining armor
Who always save the day.

What ever happened to
The once upon a time fairy tales of old.
Read aloud to children
As they drifted off into fantasy.

Did they really exist
Outside of someone else's mind?
Or was it just a way to help
Children believe in something better

Then the world in which they lived,
Deluding their fragile minds
With hopes of happiness
Where nothing is really as it seems.

Where storybook romances
Never end the way they should
And happily ever afters
Are always two minutes too late.

Where forbidden affairs
Carry tragic penalties
And secret rendezvous are exposed
On the cover of a magazine.

Where damsels in distress
Stand on every corner
And the knight in shining armor
Is really a wolf in sheep's clothing.

So close your fairy tale books
And open your sleep encrusted eyes.
Leave behind your fantasy lives
And live happily never after.