Tomorrow, I Guess

An evil queen turns everything into goopy ink, 

Meaning everything she touches turns to goopy, sloppy ink

Or wilts into a dead, lifeless plant.  

No one wants to touch.

In fact, everyone avoids it.

Avoids it because it, they find out, is used by the evil queen

To write stories with this nastiness to ruin the warrior-spirited princess’s world.

What warrior princess? What world?      

The princess and an adorable animal by the name of Oink Oink,

a Golden Retriever puppy, defeat the evil queen.

They,

the princess and Oink Oink,

are best friends.

The evil queen is envious of such an intimate relationship,

striving to destroy puppy and girl’s relationship.

Her ink gets blacker the more her envy grows as menacing

As green as the moss so prettily decorating such a castle

Belonging to the evil queen.

The princess has a castle, too

But hers is in the Land of Light and Goodness.

The evil queen lives in a place where

Her minions become ever so craftier and more deceptive,

deceiving the princess,

Oink Oink trying to get her back, and the princess remembering,

defeating the minions.

But she keeps being tempted,

From which Oink Oink wearies of saving her,

As he knows she always gives in

And suffers,

Never learning.

When will she?

Oink Oink one time betrayed her,

Running away.

Disobeys her.

And, eventually, he leaves,

the despairing, frustrated princess desperately needing him and he not being there to save her.

The evil queen has the power to literally suck of life anything she walks by;

thorns and thistles grow, gorgeous roses,

Azul,

lemon-yellow,

Pure-white

And coal-black.

Don’t fear, reader.

The black ones are good.

Just don’t let the goop touch them.

But what’s worse is these beautiful creations wilt,

Die and become black as ash and are dead.

Dead plants need to be revived.

They become Nature’s garbage.

Stripped of life.

The princess can save!

She has the power to turn things into living things again.

But she is always tempted, giving into temptation,

For she doesn’t know why, but she feels…

Oink Oink has told her through whimpers and soft growls

That he needs her to revive the roses.

Just touch them, and they’ll live!

The princess knows that the evil queen’s power to have turned these

Roses into dead plants

Can be reversed.

The princess strikes a deal with Oink Oink,

But Oink Oink just wants her to do as she’s told.

Just revive the roses!

The princess sometimes grows lazy,

The puppy frustrated.

But the Oink Oink is loyal.

He doesn’t completely give up on the princess.

Sometimes, he gets angry, biting the princess.

The evil queen laughs,

Sits on her throne, laughing at the princess.

Her own puppy sides against her!

What a loser!

What will wake the princess up?

A chomp to the ankle?

The princess sighs outside her window high up in her tower.

She grows in despair as to how she’s going to have a beautiful life if thorns and thistles get in the way.

The evil queen’s very presence and touch suck the very life out of anything she’s near or approaches.

She needs to rule without any beauty, the princess enslaved and her puppy forced to work for her, too

Abhors Oink Oink and princess’s friendship;

wishes she had someone to love, too;

the evil queen fears she’ll never be loved,

as she is cursed to turn into an ugly decrepit thing from a curse long ago cast upon her for her family

loving a sworn enemy never to be helped;

no one listened; therefore,

the evil queen desires love but can’t have it so

she seeks to destroy love itself; princess says she doesn't feel that's important to her; she's fine as it is; her kingdom is full of light and goodness;

how can evil enter in?

The evil queen doesn’t want princess to rule, as she doesn’t want love to rule; love, according to the queen,

must remain forever,

but the princess’s love, like that for Oink Oink

and Oink Oink for her,

isn’t present in the evil queen’s heart.

So if the evil queen can’t have it,

The princess and Oink Oink

Must give it to her!

They’ll love serving her, right?

They’ll love her, eventually.

She’ll give them everything they’ve ever wanted.

If only they serve her.

The princess, one day,

Says that the evil queen’s plan to

Overtake her kingdom is not to rule

With a loving heart.

It’s to destroy the princess and Oink Oink.

So Oink Oink and the princess team up

As a warrior and her puppy by her side

To destroy the queen.

Just as she intends on doing to her sworn enemy.

Maybe destroyed,

The roses will come back!

The princess realizes this,

That to destroy evil,

She must rid the earth of evil.

So she dons her armor and attacks

The kingdom of the Land of Darkness and Evil

To end the evil queen’s rule

Once and for all.

The evil queen’s minions,

Huskies with icy blue eyes,

strive to kill Oink Oink; Huskies talk but Oink Oink doesn’t.  

Evil queen’s minions strive to enslave princess and Oink Oink, but fail;

all princess and puppy do is love one another, and minions give up.

Evil queen seeks to kill them both, but evil queens’ books get burnt, ink destroyed,

The evil queen’s minions destroyed.

The princess and puppy burn all the evil queen’s novels,

The writings burned,

The evil queen’s power severely lowered.

But the evil queen sends out her new Huskies,

Red Huskies,

Who strive to kill Oink Oink.

Oink Oink barely escapes with his life

While the princess strives to save Oink Oink

And kill the huskies.

The princess touches the Huskies

And is kind to them,

Speaking the truth to them.

The evil queen speaks lies.

The Huskies serve her,

As they believe her lies.

But the princess speaks truth,

The Huskies are converted,

Never serving the evil queen again.

The princess and the evil queen come into each other’s presence,

The evil queen lounging on her throne,

The princess speaking truth to her.

The evil queen is quiet.

She hears the princess and does not respond.

The evil queen wants to live happily but moves away.

The princess touches every dead thing,

Bringing it back to life.

Oink Oink is more precious to her than her own self.

But the more good happens the more evil happens.

So the princess is tempted to give up,

But Oink Oink encourages her.

So, soon, goodness prevails,

The evil queen distancing herself from the princess,

And the princess and Oink Oink and her kingdom live together happily forever,

never to be hated again.

Books that were once used by evil queen are destroyed,

and books are written by princess to save dead and more roses—

dying blue, evergreen, white, yellow, periwinkle and red roses—

reviving them.

Beautiful land once enslaved by evil queen’s minions are now subjects to beautiful princess and Oink Oink.

Land is restored to beauty and roses are flourishing.

Black goop is turned into black silk by princess

Who is crowned queen one day.

Evil queen realizes she cannot destroy goodness

But lives alone.

Dies alone.

Among her dead plants all wilted

Around her.

Her huskies howl to the sky,

Proud of their queen,

The good queen of the Land of Good.

Oink Oink is proud of the princess

His owner.

His best friend.