Single Letter

Conderella knows –

She missed out

On a glass slipper

Of living her fairy tale

By a single letter

Listening

As Prince played

Purple Rain

Feeling ---knowing

His words of a better place

Every single letter of hope

Was addressed to you

You wrote him every day

And not a single letter was answered

Family intervention

Hired the best

And Dr. Maxwell Dillon

said this is a shocking situation

Delusions are best worn

Under a strait-waistcoat:

While you tended

The fire of your desire

The keepers

Liked to play Purple Rain

Over the speakers in your room

To drive you insane

They never asked

Why you pretended

You were his intended

Why

You wrote him every day

And not a single letter was answered

You only wanted

A kind man

Who knew

How to play the strings

Of your heart

Dr. Dillon,

Cindarella

Wrote another letter

To her imaginary

Royal suitor

As requested,

The staff read her letter

It caused us all such pain

Her searching for love this way

Is insane

She deserves the special shock box

Let’s really take our time -- this time

To burn all of Charles Perrault from her mind

Keeping her a single letter away from her fairy tale

Now, when no one watches

The staff would be the ones shocked

If they knew

Cinderalla unbuckles the straitjacket

Sneaks into the hidden hospital room

And searches under the Convulsator

For the one letter they burned from her soul

Yesterday -- Dr. Maxwell Dillon wrote

In a single shocking letter to the family

She’s been missing for days –

Cinderella now dances in the Purple Rain

Where Prince now plays

That single letter was found missing.

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