May 7, 2009

• another princess story

  i’ve been writing princess stories at work lately. on recipt paper. but haven’t had time to type them up. so here goes. a la Carsons.

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  There once was a princess who loved too much. and people would warn her and say “Be careful! Be careful you are going to get hurt!” and the princess thought. and she thought some more. and she decided she’d rather keep loving and get hurt than not love anymore. and so she did. and it was wonderful and everything they say in storybooks that it should be.

  But then one day a doubt crept into her ear. and it whispered things that made her cry. and then she saw it. she was looking into the deep eyes looking back at her–and she saw the words written. the words she did not want to see. they were words open to choice and she could choose. they were words that said she was shaping her future–and she was shaping his. and they were words that said it wasn’t the best.

  and the princess who loved too much made a choice. she made the choice to stop. So she took love by the hand and kissed it goodbye and walked away. and she didn’t look back. not until love couldn’t see her anymore. and then she sat down and cried. and while the person of loved walked on, the spirit of love came up softly behind her.

  Love asked the princess what was wrong, and she became angry. she folder her hands into fists and pounded love. she told it to leave and never come back. she said things were better off this way. but love stood still. love did not leave. And the princess who loved too much decided it was time to stop loving. and the only way she knew how to stop was to kill it.

  She picked up a stone and threw it “This is for those hurtful words.” and “This is for not being there for me” and “This is for not understanding” and “This is for the wrong you did me.” and “this is for not sticking up for me.” and then she was tired and couldn’t throw anymore. she had run out of stones.

  And love never moved. and a long time passed. and love was still there. So the princess sat down and asked “Why are you still here? if i cannot have you, why don’t you just leave, and make it easier on both of us?” “I don’t leave–love never gives up” it replied. “I am stuck with you?” said the princess, “That is unfair. then why can’t you die?” “Love is neverending” was the answer.

  “So what am i to do? I am out of options.” sighed the princess who loved too much. “Surrender” said love, “Surrender me, princess who loves too much. Give me away. Your problem never was loving too much, your problem was in who and how you were chosing to love. It is not wrong to love, but if you know that one is not for you, then surrender your love and your right to show him your love to me–for i am Love.”

  And so the princess who loved too much did. and some days were the best she’d ever had. and other days she remembered the past and it hurt. and sometimes she still had murderous thoughts against love–because killing it would be so much easier. but she did not take the easy way, she took the right way. And her name was shortened–she became the princess who loves.

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