Cinderella Syndrome 1

Once upon a time there lived an unhappy young girl, Cinderella; her mother was dead and her father had married a widow with two daughters...
moon sliding through
the fleecy clouds - the gleam
in her eyes, as she reads
to her five year old girl,
a fairy tale
--Devika

Welcome to the Cinderella Syndrome or What every girl should have; well!!! at least once in her lifetime, anyways...
we are doing this haiku/haibun style throughout the month of August; e-mail me or add your contributions at comments; i'll edit and include it in a haiku/haibun format

much love
gillena