Once Upon a Time...

I sit each day in front of frosty white windows searching for something more, something real. I was stupid to believe in "happily ever after".  I've had my fill of enchanted castles and puffy pink dresses. I've sat upon rain clouds for so long that the jewel-studded crown, woven into my hair, has rusted into plastic. I wished myself into a perfect world where everyone's a rainbow pony. The air is free of fumes. The grass is free of stickers. The world is free of pain. But without agony there can be no smiles. For happiness can’t happen without poison green apples. So here I sit, stuck in a world where there's no such thing as rainbows.