Fairy Tales

Perhaps to tumble, as in:
Once upon a time…
Fairy tales, telling stories about our place.

Witness reality instead:
Once upon a time
A mermaid was tricked onto land.
Fooled into thinking she was a breeze.
She flies high and far in dreams…
while chains and pains kept her in place.

I do wonder…
Does she still know how to swim?

Stories and fairy tales accumulate.
Leading me to believe in many things.

Once upon a time
I knew a fool
It was… and is: me,
believing I could make a difference.

Yet I do.
once upon a time,
in my daughter’s smiling eyes..

Fairy tales: stories of here and now.
What we become: is never about the place.
As each day our feet trace our tail & tale.

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Casey Kochmer Nov 2006

Personal Thoughts About the Poem

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Happiness is not a definition nor a story on how we should be.
It’s for us to live… To who we are….