Eternally Wandering Scribal Soul

I'm Not Your Fairy Tale
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You wanna rescue me
Come riding up on your prancing steed
Armour shining as you heft your sword
You wanna slay my dragons, be my hero
Well, thanks, but no thanks
I take your sword and swing it true
I slay my own damn dragons
Haven't you heard
Sir George died a very long time ago.

I'm not your Sleeping Beauty
Waiting for your kiss to wake me
Waiting on a bed of thorns
For my Prince to come
Cuz if I'd pricked my finger
And fell into a coma
The last thing I would want
Would be a showboating hero prince
That's so not in my repertoire.

I'm no fucking Cinderella
Looking for a damn chick with a wand
Who'll turn me into a princess
Send me to the ball
Make the dream end at midnight
Bullshit
Don't come near me with that shoe
It just doesn't fit
That glass shattered a thousand lifetimes ago.

It's just not my style.
I wield a sword better than I wield false modesty
i just don't have it in me
To play those games with you
Why do you want to be my hero
When I have my own hero inside of me?

I ain't no Snow White
Hiding out with seven dwarves
Letting myself be tempted by poisoned fruit
Falling into a death sleep
That only a misbegotten Prince
Can seem to rescue me from
Dude, I learned a lesson well from Eve
That fucking apple is just not for me.

You want to see me on my knees
You want to see me broken-hearted
You want to pretend to rescue me
You want to play the hero
You want me to forget
What it is to be me.

I'm not some lovestruck mermaid
Laying in repose on the sand
Watching you swim and play
You cannot put me on a shiny pedestal
Well can't you see that marble's crumbling
And that is just not the place for the one I am.

I don't need a hero, I can fight back on my own
Why is it so hard for you
To back up and let me be me?
I'm not a wounded princess
I'm not a project you can lay claim to
This ain't no fucking fairy tale.


~Seraphiel
January 5, 2006