Sometimes it's nice to pretend
that we're part of some sort of fairytale -
as the protagonists mind you.
Not the dragon or the sorceress
or the goblin or the witch.
It makes a nice change.
But why am I digressing.
Think towering castles and fairies at your disposal.
Peasants and other lowly mortals
for your languorous perusal.
Charming but useless princes ever present, ever eager.
Let’s not forget the subtle disregard
(for your loyal subjects)
as well as blatant contempt
for the witch, the goblin and the sorceress.
Those icons of apparent evil.
The dragon is too real, too terrible, too deadly.
So let it sleep.
Yes, leave the beast to its brooding and slumber.
Yes, I think it best if you let me sleep.