Snow White's Darkness
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An eternity seemed to pass as she stared,
the witch standing above her glared,
she took a bite of the apple,
and the witch doubled and tripled
in her blurred vision,
biting the apple was an odd decision,
the shadows around her would drape,
but she made no attempt to escape,
then she collapsed into one trembling shape,
she heard laughter, then cries,
her hand moved to her mouth,
but she couldn’t move her eyes,
then she rose and her shadow drifted,
not by her own power,
she was being lifted,
the witch made no sound,
staring as she turned round and round,
little men would call,
she opened her fingers
and she let the apple fall,
it was a late night,
but it was the moon that gave a fragile light,
it came in through the windows on the door,
when she was carried away,
only the apple was left,
spinning on the wooden floor.
© 2011 Frank Atanacio