It Was Never Happy [POEM]

Those happy endings were all lies,

just made up so little kids

could sleep at night with the fireflies.

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                     I decided to enter the contest!

                     The quote is from Section 1, with it

                     being,

                     “I'm chasing damn fairy tales.”

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Heavy Themes

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It Was Never Happy

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ıllı Yeshi Kangrang ıllı

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I'm chasing damn fairy tales

As if I haven't heard them before,

Like I couldn't tell who prevails

In fights that had ended before it began,

For like every other tale,

This one, too, is also poetic,

A tragedy that's waiting to happen

Yet ed only for its quote,

I'm chasing damn fairy tales

Wherein heroes go and wreck themselves

If they fail even but one task

As insignificant as the dust beneath them,

But even the dust beneath

Once served as a vessel for a star,

Alas, even the stars await for their death,

Much like each story has their ending,

I'm chasing damn fairy tales

Just to hear innocent blood cry out,

Howling against the wind and sky,

Asking why they're bloodied time and time again,

Yes, all of their cries and pleas

Is but beauty in another tone,

A symphony hidden amongst distraught,

Yet always shown in each epic hymn,

I'm chasing damn fairy tales

To see the broken ones rise above,

Watch them treat scars as medallions,

Only to lose it all once they have relapsed,

But the applause grows from there,

Cheers of awe echo throughout the halls

As the denouement approaches the scene

To steal the show like it always does,

I'm chasing damn fairy tales

Just to see if it is addictive,

For I do not see the appeal

Of crowning glory over a road of thorns,

Of wounds and scars all around,

Of broken minds that can't be restored,

Is ruination truly required

For stories to be called as stories?

I'm chasing damn fairy tales

To hear happily ever afters,

Then see the world rewind, repeat,

See it start again with “Once upon a time,”

How cruel, yet romantic,

For the hero to suffer again

In their never-ending quest for glory

Yet be rewarded with wounds and ghosts,

I'm chasing damn fairy tales

So that I could see the puppet's act,

To see the hero dance and jive

While the world give applause at its tragedy,

I could see it in their eyes,

The wish— the want— for all things to end,

Just one push, I think, is all it will take,

A nudge, a touch, before things go mad,

I'm chasing damn fairy tales

As if I haven't heard them before,

Still, I give standing ovations

To broken heroes who wished they never were,

I could see it in their eyes,

Telling me it was never happy,

Yet I will keep chasing down fairy tales

For I never get to live in one.

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ıllı Insung Yoon ıllı

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