This particular poem is also written for the Call it Heads or Tails Challenge, 4a.2 (heads) – write a fic with the prompt "aspire", and for the Freeverse Poetry Boot Camp, #035 – wealth.


7.

Once upon a time, it would've been
an impossible dream:
a pauper to princess tale.
But now, it's right in front of her
and all she can say is no.

Perhaps, once upon a time ago,
she'd have accepted those words:
their meaning, their state
but now she's long since known
that's not her place to go.

He was a friend, once upon a time,
and that was something she'd never dreamed
as it was, and now he's offered more
and, really, it's too much.
It's the real, impossible dream
even though he's asked.

There isn't another answer there
but no.