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Sleepless: Fairy Tale: Poem: The End of Sleep

  • Feb. 27th, 2017 at 10:12 PM
Title: The End of Sleep
Fandom: Fairy tales
Length: 60
Content notes: no warnings apply
Summary: What wakes her?
Author note: could be read as an answer to Au bois dormant, but I think it works on its own.



What wakes her? Not a lover’s kiss,
a voice or a footstep. Nothing stirs
in the silent courtyard, nothing has
for a hundred years. It’s time,
Beauty, time to get up. That hedge of briar
gnarled thick with age, shutting out the light,
can’t keep you in. Sharpen your axe:
cut away, cut through. Make a path to the world.


Comments

smallhobbit: (dragon)
[personal profile] smallhobbit wrote:
Feb. 27th, 2017 11:30 pm (UTC)
Ooh, I do like this. The idea Beauty can be responsible for her own future.
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (Default)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Feb. 27th, 2017 11:37 pm (UTC)
thank you! *beams* I liked that idea too.
dariaw: Sunflower in foreground, with a sun-drenched field of sunflowers and the horizon in fuzzy focus in the background (Default)
[personal profile] dariaw wrote:
Mar. 2nd, 2017 03:17 am (UTC)
This is great - I love Sleeping Beauty as a badass cutting her way out with the axe. And I love the way you make the story relate to all of us metaphorically (if that's what you were intending?)
clarasteam: picture of louise brooks (Default)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Mar. 2nd, 2017 07:29 pm (UTC)
*beams* thank you - very glad you like badass Sleeping Beauty! I think the story can relate to any or all of us. :)

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