Happily Ever After Poem by Jim Yerman

I was raised on fairy tales…my favorites were the rhymes.
It's where I learned about happily ever after and once upon a time.

Fairy tales helped develop my hopes and dreams.
I can't measure their effect on me.
They helped to shape who I was then…
and the who I came to be.

Then I grew up and I was told happily ever after is harder than it looks…
that it doesn't always happen the way it does in books…

But I believe it can…

for every fairy tale, as anyone whose ever read them knows,
had their share of troubles…had their share of woes…

but troubles were always resolved…and all the woes were mended
and happily ever after…is how those stories ended.

Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Cinderella
all had sorrowful moments…devoid of joy and laughter
yet in the end didn't our protagonists…
live happily ever after?

It's simple really…we have to learn to recognize the signs…
because sometimes life…as with fairy tales
Is lived between the lines…

As for me:

My fairy tale has come true…I'm living my once upon a time
I found my happily ever after…and as you may have guessed by now…
I still enjoy the rhymes.