This piece was inspired by several things: fairy tales, irony, and folk music.
One day I got a rythm stuck in my head and I thought "Hey! This would be great for a poem!" I ususally write more serious stories and poems but the beat in my head reminded me so much of folk music that I wanted to make the poem perky.
Now, writing perky poems isn't really my thing, but I started thinking of folk songs and how they often tell stories and fairy tales came to mind. Many fairy tales are have an underlying morbidity to them, such as Little Red Riding Hood. When I began writing this poem, I intended it to be a fairy tale of sorts. It turned into an upbeat poem about death. The irony is delightful! It turned into a story of two lovers who are both traumatized by inner illness, but in the end the find peace in the fact that they're ending their lives together.