Hopeless Cause

Written by Vanshika Srivastava

The wine intervened before something broke,
I left the chair, before your I told you so.
I never once had to believe in your faith,
But that was my heart’s aching wish.

I had no choice, you left this mark 
On the face of my cracking laugh.
I pined and pined,
Learned to love from wrong to right 
Yet my fairytale was still a hopeless cause.

What do I say,
To that little princess 
Who once laid her head on the pillow,
Dreaming and wishing of that one fate, 
Her fate.
How do I look into those two eyes, 
Still flickering alight with hope and joy, 
That it was never in the cards.
And now her laugh is the echo 
Of the tale of a beautiful girl,
Who drowned in the fragments of her own long lost dreams, 
Her hopeless cause.