Your love
a rungless ladder
that I
foolishly endeavoured
to climb
to a tower
that wasn’t
there
an unhappy ever after ending
there was no turning into swan
the clock was forever
striking midnight with a fearful bong
there was no glass slipper
that fit
there was no awakening
kiss.
There was only
the rungless ladder
of your love.
There was only
a tower
that didn’t exist.
And I
only
a foolish
blind prince.
Dónall Dempsey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-awakening-kiss/
