10000. A Sleeping Beauty Sonnet

A narrative poem based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty.

**In Slumber's Embrace: A Sonnet of Sleeping Beauty**

In days of yore, when kingdoms rose and fell,  

A tale of beauty spun through twilight's gleam,  

A princess cursed, her fate a darkened spell,  

In slumber deep, she wandered through a dream.  

Behold the lavish halls where silence reigned,  

With tapestries that whispered of her grace,  

Yet thorns encased her heart, forever chained,  

As time, relentless, wore a patient face.  

The fairest gifts bestowed at her sweet birth,  

A curse, an envy, masked in joy’s disguise,  

The spinning wheel, a symbol of her worth,  

Yet pricked her finger, sealed her fate in sighs.  

But love, a knight with courage pure and bright,  

Awoke her soul with true love's tender light.