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