Tell me fairytales.

Because nothing bad can happen in a fairytale,

Or if it does it soon gets sorted out

And everything is all right in the end

And they all live happily ever after.

Everyone but the villain.

She – for you’ll find the villain is usually a woman –

Will always lose.

Cooked in her own oven,

Cuts off her toe to fit a shoe,

Or locked up and executed.

Apart from in ‘The Little Mermaid

– not the ridiculous Disney version; the original –

Where the seawitch wins.

She keeps the mermaid’s voice,

She gets the sister’s hair

And the mermaid dies because she loves her prince too much to kill him.

But she finds peace.

So don’t tell me fairytales;

Tell me fishy tales

And real stories of the strength of love and courage

And remind me that I can pull through.