The Story of Our Stories

Cinderella was beautiful, they say.

It was, in fact, her beauty that saved her,

not all that sweeping of ashes.

Her foot, after all,

was so dainty

as to capture

a prince.

Have you measured your own foot lately?

Surely Snow White served

all those little men well,

scrubbing, mending, cooking,

and,

if Walt is to be trusted,

singing the whole time.

It was her beauty, though,

that earned a kiss

from a prince,

the kiss that brought her

back from the sleep

of death.

But then it was her beauty

that brought on the poisoned sleep, too.

So what does that tell us?

Only love could make the velveteen rabbit real,

but all Geppetto’s love

couldn’t rescue

Pinocchio.

The lesson in all this?

We must choose our stories

with the most

profound

care.

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