Can You Still Believe?

Can you believe in fairytales?

Even while knowing they're not real

They say happy tales are for those who aren't strong enough yet

To make the hope they can't feel

Can you believe in a fantasy?

The joy that laws of physics say you can't have

After all they're nothing but pages in books

They may keep your heart but not your body alive

Well, I can believe in fairytales

Even knowing they can't do things like brush my hair

Stories may not give me food or money or a nice paying job

But hope for something, anything, has to start somewhere

I can believe in wistful dreams

The kind that you can't ever hold (just like air!)

While those happy endings can't be done

Having them inspire me to make my own is just about fair

Honestly it's fine if I'm not Cinderella or Greta and Kai

That I can't use magic for adventures or meet my love by 'chance'

Because happy endings are just the beginning

They spur on other steps to a dance

So what if they can't happen?

Fairytales are the sun and water for the quiet seed

That is your hope for other, maybe more important things

That anyone may want and really need

So I can believe in fairytales

Even knowing they'll just be words and pages, an unrealistic fling

I can still dream of a life that science says will never be

Because they're just a few of the feathers to my wings

There's plenty of more important joys

Like a certain person already has been to me

And while you're not a fairytale, or magic, or a magic golden goose

I'd rather have this world with you in it, you see?

Reviews

[zainul]

Excellent thoughts presented as a wonderful poem.
Love this line:
"Fairytales are the sun and water for the quiet seed"

[Ars Goetia Poetry]

This is brilliant. I enjoyed this, a lot.