Winds of Destiny

Day-18 OctPoWriMo-2018
Prompt: Once Upon A Time (Form: Fable)

Image: From a friend

Once upon a time,
There lived a  pretty lass
On the wild coast of sunny paradise
She serenaded the breezy palms
Her world filled with many dreams
Weaving a carpet of magic
She wanted to travel far and wide.
She danced, pranced in youthful glee
Never letting sorrow touch her brows.
Life was an enchanting rhyme.

Oh! How she touched the sky when she felt happy!
She read, played, sang and danced in gay
There was nothing to stop her wild heart
Her life revolved around her loved ones
Her companions were the casuarina trees
Under their shade, 
She wrote her dreamy verses 
Nobody had the power 
To change her fancy ways
Oh!How naive was she!

The forces gathered encore:
A prince in white armor
Displaying his shining epaulets 
Saw the pretty lass 
Dancing in the meadows
Her long hair swaying in the wild breeze
Her carefree laughter a fragrant chime
His heart felt the spell and went wild
He decided to tame her to his might.

Unknown to this sudden twist
The churning of tides 
The lass was  lost in her world 
She  had her happy dreams
She still had the sky in her eyes
Their winds of destiny were in charge
The prince set in motion to work
He tried every trick in the book
He followed her every track
He bribed her friends and flock.
There was no chance 
For the lass to escape
She fell in the trap
Like a fish on a hook.

Destiny smiled,
It blew the winds
To rock her dreams
There was a thundering storm
It left debris and debris of broken dreams
Her life turned upside down
The forces of destiny were too strong.
She did try, to fight the odds
But she was wrong
One cannot fight one's fate
We are just pawns
In the hands of a greater force.


Then she understood...
Not every fairy tale has a happy ending.






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