Goodbye to my dream of Happily Ever After

I used to believe in it

the fairytale ending,

the promise that love would stay

if I just held on tight enough.

Doing right by others would payoff

Just a matter of time

Truth is,sometimes it doesn’t

You can do it all, maybe it is a lesson

To learn. Maybe, I should of listened when they told me to put that time in myself instead.

Since I was a child,

I pictured forever

like a warm light waiting for me,

a place where no one leaves,

where love doesn’t break and I am seen.

But forever didn’t come.

The story I dreamed

didn’t match the life I’m living.

The castle cracked,

the prince turned human,

and the magic faded quietly

while I tried to keep it alive

It seems it was never meant to be mine.

I’m sad to let it go.

It hurts to bury a dream.

But endings teach what fantasies hide.

I’ve learned where I lost myself,

and I won’t walk that circle again.

So goodbye, Happily Ever After.

I leave you where you belong

in my past, door closed and key hidden.

The lesson is mine now,

the hardest one I’ve ever learned.

Maybe one day a man will arrive

who gives what I truly deserve.

If not, my life needs to go on

my mornings will start

with no regrets.

My lessons are not my downfall but my journey

No more fantasies of fairytales.

No prince is coming to save me.

I must see what is,

not what I wish it to be.

My fate is mine to shape.

It’s a painful truth

wanting my heart to be full,

yet seeing only half

of what stands clearly in front of me.

I can’t follow a heart

that misleads me so easily.

So long to the belief in perfection.

I am done with disappointment

and the slow betrayal of begging to be loved.

Love should be simple

not a battle to whether.

For now I choose me.

I will not wait for you

to become my reality.