You always used to say I was not 

Your “real mom”

And I say,

“Tropes!”

What you really need to study are tropes.

For instance–

all the insinuating places

Fairy godmothers turn up:

• Mitigating curses
• Magically changing  the appearance of the most ordinary pumpkins
• Mending what has torn and broken
• Saving a girl from “steps” of one sort or the other

(…Or in your case just your own lost-girl soul)

• Changing epithets into flowers 
• Or mirrors into enchanted doorways  for the…

The forever, the divine, the set-free, the 

Real girl you 

Should recognize in the faces now of your own

Bewildered children.

(Wake up, sleeping beauty…wake up)