rapunzel

I find a potion, an elixir to immortality

To keep me youthful and a beauty in reality

A dangerous flower that gives me prosperity

But they grab it for me, my beautiful dahlia

They give it to another, as I watch in despair

So they can praise her and call her destiny

In fateful vengeance, I get close to the family

I steal it back, I steal one of their own

To nurture it as my own, to show it the err of your ways

But she’s stubborn and arrogant

She believes you instead

The lies you write as memoirs,

The tales you pass down

She doesn’t know, she doesn’t understand

That is my brain, power and potion

That gives her beauty, love, emotion

He comes to her, threatened by my presence

And tells her fibs in my absence

He lies and lies, as men before him did

And soon enough she embraces this need

To have a protector, as if she can never be

On her own, she can never be free

Into the night they flee

They run, aware that I will chase

I will not let my discovery go to His Grace

But they capture me, the one they hate

In a multitude, they burn me at the stake