You may believe me or not

But Cinderella’s story

Brought me to a different plot:

How quickly Prince all forgot

I will tell you in short.

When Cinderella was running away

And on the stairway

Had lost her crystal shoe,

It was really true.

Prince couldn’t catch her up.

He stumbled on something,

Thought it was a queen’s cup.

The shoe slipped down the steps.

Perhaps if it was not broken,

The story could have, as in a tale,

A happy end. But…..

That time his feet he strained,

And…it strongly pained.

His feelings to the girl had waned at once

Cinderella had no another chance.

That’s how it turned out.

That’s how it often happens in life.

A miracle of magic can be easily shattered,

If only your own feelings would be mattered.

© Copyright Larisa Rzhepishevska

June 11^th, 2011 (Odessa, Ukraine)