Happily Never After

Happily Never After

Love reading those romances.
Bridget Jones gets her man,
and together they kindle an eternal flame.
Why can’t real life be like that?

Diana had a fairytale wedding
with a handsome prince
in a coach pulled by white horses.
She looked sublime,
like a prima ballerina dancing Swan Lake.

It didn't last.
Three people can’t live within one marriage,
never mind four or more.
She escaped,
so they took away her 'Royal'.
The People's Princess will always be royal to me.

She gave it another go
with a dashing cavalry officer.
Turned out he wasn't a gentleman.
Hewitt kissed and told.
Diana was devastated
by his betrayal
but didn’t give up.

A later dalliance
may have been with
her true soul mate.
The heart surgeon she dated
was certainly a fine man,
but not everybody in her life
was happy to see her happy
which drove her to end
what might have ended
in a happy ending.

Finally, she found love with a film producer
whose family background some believed dubious.
Not the man of most girl's dreams,
but Diana loved him enough to overlook flaws.

This time she refused to give up on love.

We all know how that ended.

Perhaps she was never fated to live
happily ever after.



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