the prince was a let down
Monet Polny
~ princes are impatient rescuers,
their chivalry has limits,
they expect every princess
to awake with gratification
on their lips. ~
while asleep in dreamland, aurora watched the prince she loved
dance with dozens of women at the ball –
as if sensing her despair,
her fairy godmother appeared and whispered:
“in all the time you’ve been sleeping,
he hasn’t married or proposed to anyone else.”
aurora smiled faintly and replied:
“it’s hard enough to see him flirting,
i don’t want to imagine the scars that will
appear upon my heart if he pursues another woman.”
“isn’t your heart broken already?”
“my heart hurt the day his kiss didn’t wake me,
but my heart broke the day he stopped trying to save me.”
Monet Polny (she/her) is a senior creative writing student with a minor in women and gender studies. She is a reader as well as a writer and aims to create more literature that gives a voice to asexual women. Monet is a certified yoga instructor, and she plans to teach classes once she graduates from Susquehanna University. When she’s not writing, Monet spends her time venting to her dog Lulu or hiding among stacks of books in a library.
Issue 15
2022