“Once Upon A Time” is how life begins, and “Happily Ever After” is how we are taught the saga plays itself out. If only real life were so simple. As impressionable young girls we are led to believe that fairy tales can and do exist. Forever is a real and tangible possibility. That Love is a lasting feeling that carries us through even the roughest spots in the road of life we travel. No one tells us about the potholes, the pitfalls, or the cliffs that will present along our journey into womanhood. As we take a spouse; believing that we have found that soul mate that will elate our souls giving wing and flight to carry us breathlessly and effortlessly through the journey which lies ahead. Never were we warned about the mundane existence that becomes the life of a woman as she falls into the world of motherhood and housework. Overwhelmed by the world that has immersed her soul, it is all she can do to keep her head above the drowning waters. Lost... a soul forgotten... tears find her as she lies down at night to sleep, Hoping beyond all hope that in her dreams she will find peace and tranquility that will help her make it through just one more day. This is her plea, her prayer, each and every night.
The heart yearns for just one moment in time that will carry her through. A touch, a glance, something tangible to hold on to and never let slip away. Something that is just enough to give her a glimpse of a fairytale long forgotten. She aches for that all encompassing feeling, that lives only in this moment, unable to ever be captured again. It takes your breath away yet at the same time breathes new life into a once ruined soul. It grants peace in the mere knowledge that perfect Love exists, no matter how fleeting it may be. It cannot be reproduced, although the heart yearns and suffers for that simplistic influence with every breath taken. It is indescribable, as words don’t begin to brush the edge of this divine emotion. Shared only by two people that have a deep connection that transcends all boundaries of heaven and earth. A voyeuristic journey into the soul, as though I am Alice peering through the looking glass in beguiling wonderment. This is true Love. This instance that gives life, expelling all else, and renewing the woman locked away within. Dreaming and hoping for a promise that was given her as a small child, something tangible that will overcome all opposition, and bring her to a place of rest. That place where eternity is real, where Love abounds, and fairy tales come true.
For not only myself, but for my daughters, and their daughters to come after them... for all those who are lost and yearning .... I wish for each of us, that one simple moment where truth prevails and that brief moment reminds us that Love is real, Love exists, Love is all encompassing. May it linger in our hearts and souls until the ends of time.
