Fairy-tales vs Reality

Life is no fairy-tale 

it's all that we hear 

when we're no longer children 

with reality unclear

Cinderella? there's no prince!

now snap out of it! 

Sleeping Beauty? You wish!

Slumber's no bottomless pit 

Life is a beeping heart-rate 

with constant ups and downs

don't over think a flat-line 

is that a fortunate sound 

Your'e silly to ever think 

that there's no forbidden fruit

lest you taste the poison 

all through the apple tree root 

Without the antagonist 

there can never be a plot 

without a hero's death 

a story might just rot 

Life is no fairy-tale 

this is no consolation 

but our happily ever after

is in our imagination