A Modern Rapunzel

Wed, 08/30/2017 - 22:42 -- nnail18

No one ever said her story was easy.

In fact, her life was quite far from breezy. 

This is the tale of a modern Rapunzel

Who's family life had become a giant puzzle. 

There are no evil enchantresses and no magic hair. 

Instead, there is a gangster mom filled with despair.

All she desired was a child to hold, 

But she could not birth,

So her personality was made cold. 

Her name was De Primera Calidad,

And she owned a powerful gang.

In her grasp, a triumphant drug cartel sang. 

And from this cartel emerged a drug so addicting.

One taste left a mother deeply convicting.

This mother craved more,

But De Primera Calidad remained uncompromising. 

Unless... of course! The mother obtained something promising.

"Your child for the drug," demanded the gangster woman.

The mother couldn't resist, after all she was only human. 

She willingly threw the child into De Primera Calidad's arms.

In return, she was given enough of the drug to create multiple farms. 

Years later, 

When the child grew older,

Her blood mother came back,

this time less colder. 

She wanted her sweet Rapunzellisha back,

But De Primera Calidad was far from cutting her slack. 

"I have a proposal," the mom suggested the terrible ploy.

She wanted to switch Rapunzellisha with a totally random boy!

De Primera Calidad became furious,

Her eyes all kinds of delirious. 

The worse thing she could possibly do,

Worse than owning a drug cartel,

Is give her daughter back to a mother who's not true. 

De Primera Calidad finally snapped.

With a bullet from her gun, the mother was slapped.

Rapunzellisha walked in on this horrid scene,

Her long, white weave so fresh and so clean. 

"Ah!" she screamed at the woman on the floor. 

She was so deeply shocked, she couldn't make it to the door.

De Primera Calidad chased after her daughter.

She caged Rapunzellisha in her arms,

No matter how hard she fought her. 

Once the scene was calm, De Primera Calidad explained.

After a while of contemplation, Rapunzellisha no longer complained. 

She accepted both mothers,

Even the random boy, too.

They all lived in harmony,

And happily ever after they grew.

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