A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of the eve
This is the story of how it all happened
How friendship will conquer if you just believe
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Soft are the wings of the firefly princess
Twilight the scene of her flickering light
Pine needle whispers aflutter of springtime
Alone on this evening in silence her flight
Warm April breezes caressing her body
Slumbering daffodils, gold leaf embossed
Shining, her beacon illumines the valley
Twinkling sad of a friend she had lost
Wandering sadly neath evergreen niches
Shadows and silhouettes bend at her glow
Hard to imagine her tiny heart broken
Far from the beauty this night she does show
When then she sees him alone on a hillside
A pen in his hand as he quietly writes
Silently floating, she lands on his shoulder
Kind is his face that her glow gently lights
Noticing teardrops upon his cheeks falling
“Why are you crying?” she asks him sincere
Startled, he looks at her, eyes wet and weary
“Oh little firefly, what has brought you here?”
He turned away gazing off up at the moonlight
Then shook his head as more words he wrote down
“I miss her so much,” he said in a whisper
His mouth once he finished returned to a frown
She knew how he felt for her heart it was broken
One winter’s evening, a cold misty day
Taken from sleep by her jealous big sister
Evil her magic had whisked him away
Just then she noticed that things felt familiar
Something about him jarred her memory
It can not be, visions rambled within her
This can not be my friend taken from me
“If I may ask sir, please when did you lose her?”
She fluttered her wings so excited to hear
Her light now as bright as the full moon above them
Here on this hillside the skies ever clear
“It’s hard to remember, but sometime last winter,
a sorceress came on the solstice I think
From by her side I was suddenly taken,
found myself here just as quick as a wink”
“Since then I’ve cried on this hillside we frolicked
Writing her poetry, words how I feel
Sorrow and sadness in harmonic phrases
Verses my broken heart could not conceal”
“The saddest part is it is merely a feeling,
only her smile is what I can recall
I know she was real for my heart does remind me,
the rest is a blur, almost nothing at all”
She thought and she thought of her wicked old sibling
Remembering tears drops from friendships that fell
When mixed together might change what had happened
Glistening together, they could break the spell
She took one of hers that she saved since December
Flew to his cheek were a steady stream flowed
Placed her own teardrop within his now weeping
To her amazement, his body it glowed
Shimmering sparkles like fireworks bursting
A magical sheen filled the heavens above
A blink of her eye and he changed right before her
He now was a firefly, the one that she loved
His eyes grew as wide as a sunflower smiling
Flapping his wings like he’d never before
Looking at her, his light brightly was gleaming
He said, “I remember, you’re my friend I adore”
He was so happy, he flew up and hugged her
“I missed you,” he said “never leave me again
We’ll fly and we’ll hide far away from your sister”
Then he looked down and he noticed his pen
He lifted it up and then flew to the paper
Flapping his wings he penned one final line
It read that they lived happily ever after
From now in this moment, till the end of time
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So there you have it, a tale of best friends
Missing each other once taken apart
Knowing now that every happiest ending
Can always be found if you look in your heart
2/13/17
Written for the Fairy Tale for Children Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Eve Roper
Copyright © Chris Green | Year Posted 2017
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