Happy endings

‘And they lived happily ever after’

The author wrote

Scribbling ‘The End’

Right after

He then

Collected the sheets of paper

Covered in type-writer letter

Carrying a story of great delusion

Of love and happiness

And he stapled them together

Looked at the manuscript

His first and last novel

Facts twisted and distorted

Until all that remained were

Only the good

And not the truth

And he walked to the kitchen

Of his pol-athu pale

Rolled the paper

Of his story

Placed them neatly in the

Dara lipa

Lit them on fire

Boiled some water

Made some tea

Sipped it and pictured

What his life would be like

If there was a fairytale ending

Like his now burnt

Story did