Fairytales

"Someday you'll be old enough
To start reading fairytales again."

Do we ever really stop?
Every story with a happy ending
Is a fairytale,
Something that never was,
Where everything falls into place.
Everyone walks away
Smiling

What about religion?
The ultimate fairytale.
No one is ever deemed too old to read the Bible
With its Good vs. Evil morality
And its abiding sense of
"Everything will turn out right"

In all other cases
We disguise it,
Saying that
Adult stories are realistic -
Scientifically possible,
More ambiguous characters.

But what's realistic
About an author's manipulation?
The orchestration of coincidence.
Giving hope that it will happen
For us.
One day something will happen,
Or we'll meet someone,
And everything will be okay.
Good always triumphs
And Evil is suppressed.

Age has nothing to do with it,
Hope is the key.

Does such a belief seem naive?
It belongs to a more innocent age,
Before we got all world-weary.
What if it's a belief that everyone holds?
Even if they hide it.
Even if they forget.
Even if they care too much about what people think
To act on it.