what tomorrow brings.

xviii. twisted fairytale.

xviii. TWISTED FAIRYTALE.

frostbitten lies, i scream but why aren't you listening? my legs give out, my voice cracks until that too is gone, why don't you see what i see? the scars that scatter themselves like tic tac toe boards, reminiscing on a childhood that has been gone for too long, a childhood that never happened. happy ever afters need more explanations, tell me why i didn't get one. i am the rose falling apart in the beast's castle, but i am never fixed again. cinderella's lost shoe, never being picked up for i am forgotten. i am sleeping beauty in a state of paralysis, prince charming doesn't even bother to kiss me awake. instead he takes his sharpened knife and does me a favor; i never get the chance to thank him. i'm left staring at glow in the dark stars stuck to my ceiling, they mock me for how much innocence has been lost since my mother gifted them to me. twelve years old, diagnosed with depression, pills after pills, suicide attempt failed. i left my hospital bed scattered with broken crayola crayons for all i have ever known is tragedy and sadness, a childhood wasted. the world took my dreams and buried them with what it all has come to.

when i got home, i took down the stars.
i haven't colored ever since.