Once upon a time...

"With true love kiss the spell will break."

Ever since we can remember we have been bombarded with messages of love. We've been compromised by the entertainment companies. They feed off the lovers, the dreamers, the believers. Little girls mimicking Aura, Snow White, Cinderella. Hoping to find their price by sharing some crayons. If that doesn't work they usually chase them down in tag. 

How did the princes know the love was true? When did they know they needed their princesses with all liver and bones? Did they kiss and if it she woke up it was "true"? 

That's all we have. Trial and error. 

Locking lips, growing feeling, shattering hearts until we find our "true love."

That's why love is so hard. You thinks it's real, it's so beautiful on his skin. Your heart soars and the kisses send you past pluto into the milky way. Seemingly always in a few weeks you find it wasn't made for the two of you. 

I found mine.

He's gone.

My heart is out of chest wandering around trying to find some liquor.

I've been wandering in this empty world trying to find someone something to fill this numbness in my chest. When love leaves she isn't generous. 

She leaves you with nothing but emptiness.

Sadness.

Tears.

There is something so tragically beautiful about tears. 

They are warm. Made to comfort. Sadly they just remind us of what we are trying to avoid.

THE VOID.

"People do crazy things when they are in love." -Hercules

We do ANYTHING at the idea that it might be true. That's what so disturbingly beautiful about love. It drives us to do things we would never consider in our natural state. It pushes us off the cliff. Sometimes we fly.

Mostly we fall.

After we finally pull ourselves off the ground love returns and in a rather unapologetic tone spits, "Sorry sweetie this isn't your happily ever after after. Better luck next time."

Kissing, laughing, crying, lying, distain mostly pain. Until finally we find the one who our heart does somersaults for. After all the twirls that's when we realized what we needed all along.

We needed our Happily Ever After.

All we needed was Love.

Silly, sweet, murderous, crazy, sappy, crappy, screwed up, blissful, love.