Sleepless: Fairy Tale: Poem: The End of Sleep

[clarasteam]

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]

Ooh, I do like this. The idea Beauty can be responsible for her own future.

[clarasteam]

thank you! *beams* I liked that idea too.

[dariaw]

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]

*beams* thank you - very glad you like badass Sleeping Beauty! I think the story can relate to any or all of us. :)