Storybook tales

She clutches her baby to her chest scurrying through the forest that is full of

so many unwanted predators that could put a end to all of her misery in one

striking moment. She is running from the life she has lived for so many years

she has lost count now. She refuses to let her child live with the cruelty she has

endured for so long, it is time to take her life into a different direction before

it is to late for her. She has hidden under a cloak for so long that she could not

even recognize herself anymore and hid from all around her.

She wonders to herself is there truly a prince out there for her like the ones her

mom had read to her from the storybooks when she was wistful child living in

an fantasy world? How had her life gotten so unbearable? Why had she took the

wrong turn in trusting a man she had felt from the beginning was a demon under

his smiling face?

She is running toward a new life for herself and child and cares not of what may

happen to them and where this road will lead, anywhere has to be better than the

one she has just escaped. She dreams of a life full of heartbeats and smiling faces

that are true to the eye and soul. She scurries faster now running from the darkened

forest running for all she can feeling a lightness come over her body as she quickens

her pace now. She already feels like a weight is being lifted from her shoulders and

kisses her child with tenderness that only she can give.

In a start she wakens to arms around her and can smell the blossoms of the cherry trees

that line her gardens and smiles to herself as she realizes her fairy-tale has came true

long ago and the woman running in the forest had been her mother saving her from

a life of heartache and unbearable doom. Her heart slows to an even pace now as she

turns over looking at her prince charming and thanking the woman whom she had never

meant before, but in her dreams...