14. ... he created her fairy tale kingdom

She was a princess and he had created her fairy tale kingdom. She cried for a long long time after she learned that this is just not the way it is in the really truly grown up world. But then she remembered that the jewels may have been plastic but the love was authentic.

13. Perfection just wasn't so important

On the day she was finally rescued from her tower,

the princess was disappointed to notice that

her knight in shining amour

was showing signs of tarnish.

She considered replacing

him but she had waited oh so long,

she thought about scrubbing and polishing him,

but maybe perfection just wasn’t so important after all.

12. And it was love ......

She saw him clearly, without denial,
and she accepted him completely just as he was.
And it was love.

11. ... change itself is constant and reliable

It seemed that you just couldn’t rely on anything.

Everything was always changing.
Her childhood had seemingly evaporated

and her memories were fragile shadows

changing with the morning light.

Then it occurred to her,

"Change itself is very constant and reliable."

10. ....chance to start anew.

Once upon a time the sun rose over the earth

and spilled a bright new day into the sky.

That was the moment she realized this was

her chance to start anew.

9. "How come life washes up ....

“How come life washes up all kinds

of lovely surprises for some people.”

he asked her.
“Oh they are the people who are present enough to notice.”

she answered.

8. Once I ached to be...

“Once I ached to be OK in your eyes”,
she confessed, “Now it’s OK I’m not.”

7. If I don't catch you ...

"If I don't catch you when you fall,"

she whispered into the wind,

"It's because I believe you can fly."

5. The more you focus on a matter

“The more you focus on a matter,

the more it matters to you.”

And he took my hand and led me

toward the things that did matter.

4. It's what i see that matters

“What I am looking at is not important,
it’s what I see that matters”, she thought.

It was then she realized

that she saw all kinds of things

that most people missed.

3. ..and she was the richest little girl

He held her tiny hand close to his heart,

and he told her,

“All the riches of universe are worthless,

love is our only treasure.”

And she was richest little girl in the land.

2. "What is left of my dream....

“What is left of my dream could fit in a matchbox,”

she didn’t mean to complain to him

but the words had escaped

from a crack in her broken heart.
“Sounds like a cozy little future after all,”
he said with a wink and a grin.

1. "Shh", she hushed

“Shhh”, she hushed, “Listen”.
That’s when I heard it. The answer.
It came right from my very own heart.