True Love's Kiss

If your heart has been broken too many times to count, is it crazy to still long for, wait for, hope for, wish for... true love's kiss?

If you have endured so much pain that at times you were certain you would die of heartache, is it suicidal to reach for, ache for, quest for, dream of... true love's kiss?

If you have been walked on and lied to so much that you aren't sure you can recover, is it maniacal to believe in, trust in, rely on, count on... just one more person?

If you trusted someone once and pricked your finger on the spindle or tasted of the poison apple... could true love's kiss wake you from your eternal slumber?

If you are locked in the tower... is there a prince to climb up your long hair or search the countryside to return your glass slipper?

If you believe hard enough, long enough, strong enough... will a knight in shining armor brave giant thorns and evil dragons to breathe the life of true love's kiss into your heart?

If you decide that you can do it, that it can happen... is that enough? If you find him... if he finds you... if you profess undying love and sacrifice everything... is that enough? If he holds you close and whispers promises to you... if he's thoughtful and charming and perfectly imperfect... is that enough? If you talk and laugh and smile all night about life and silliness... if you sit quietly, knowing that nothing needs to be said... is that enough? If he sings to you in the wee hours of the morning... if he makes love to you and your bodies fit together like a delicately carved puzzle... is that enough? If one look from him can make you feel whole again... if his jokes make you smile through the tears... is that enough? If his voice can break through the clouds of disappointment... if one word from him turns your day around... is that enough? If he cannot turn his eyes from you... if you are in his thoughts as he drifts off to sleep at night and as he awakes in the morning... is that enough? If he holds you tightly all through the night and still he longs to be closer... is that enough?

Is all of that enough... or do you need a ring and a gown and a ball... must you have a public profession and signatures and gifts? Can you do it without something borrowed, something blue, and rice in your hair?

Do you need the fairy tale... or is having him enough?