The Melting Snow

It was thirteen years ago when I, the prince of "Nowhere" brought along with me the fair maiden, princess Snow white. 

She taught me songs, I memorized all of them. I looked closely at the future, ever beautiful, always. One of the most beautiful places where we were together, away from that evil stepmother. 

I recite those songs. I still listen to them sometimes. 

Neither hunger nor sleep bars me. Even now, I smile to sacrifice my body. I lied to you when I said I'll keep you safe! Look what you found at the end of reason. Look what we were rewarded with! 

To fight an evil witch's spells, to be raised in the jungle in between uncouth and ugly dwarfs and to be able to wake up from a year long coma might feel like a lifetime worth of misadventures. But God had other plans. It was not just a coma after all. A tumour in your brain makes you see things. How could I let you know? You who gave me all those songs to memorise? 'Cancer' the doctors call it!

Your memories scar deep into my mind as I walk down the boulevard. I feel I must give up forever. All that you gave me, it's all yours now! My wound grows even deeper as I keep alive just to keep you alive! 

"Find yourself a life, hold on." She tells me that everything will be all right while she waits to be dead, In that dammed hospital room alone.  

Her oxygen was falling rapidly that night. All those tales of magic and dwarfs and apple and poison were useless. She was on morphine, waiting to die.

As soon as I knew, I rushed out of the room.

I needed to go out and feel fresh air, but since the moment I walked out the door, waiting in ambush was the weather. The people on the street were caught in a surprise by the sudden drizzle! On the side of the road, between the scattered rain scraps people hurried along under shelters, collars raised to save from the cold! All were soaked. It was inevitable!

All rooms on the street were crowded as ever. Breathing in that same oxygen, as if you're smokers in a room. Poisonous. Maybe this is not what I expected at all. I immediately stepped back in. 

We fell into the smoke, into the 'life' we were to steal. One dead and one survives. You just have to die in here but I am the one sentenced to death. You, my princess, will always be know as Snow-White!