Mary The Repairy Fairy

This isn’t a story about a land far, far away from a time long, long ago.
It’s a story about a girl from a nearby town who, this Christmas, is very low.

Her pet, Robert the rabbit, or Bob the bunny to his friends, is poorly and in pain.
When Mabel, the little girl, cries her Dad promises her that Bob will be right as rain.

Not many children know, including Mabel, that when you cry you release a fairy,
And when Mabel cries for Bob the bunny, she frees a Repairy Fairy called Mary.

The magic happens when Mabel’s first teardrop of an unkept promise falls to the ground.
With a twinkle and a spark, Mary bursts forth from the teardrop, leaving Mabel spellbound.

Mary is the Fairy for Fulfilment of Unkept Promises that make children weep.
Her job is to pick up and mend the pieces when parents make promises they can’t keep.

Mary the Repairy Fairy spends most of her year lonely, in a box in the loft.
But, at Christmas time, she gets dusted down and there upon the Christmas tree she sits aloft.

When alone at the top of the house she is free to work magic to make dreams come true.
But as the Christmas fairy at the top of the tree she can’t as she is in full view.

Oh, what to do . . . Mabel and Bob need help and Mary must find a way to make Bob better.
She has a think and sets in motion three courses of action . . . starting with a letter.

As the house sleeps and all is quiet, she writes with fairy dust by the light of the moon.
Mary’s note asks the Christmas Star to shine over Bob tonight to help him get well soon.

The Christmas Star hangs brightly over Bob, sprinkling stardust upon his home all night long.
When morning breaks, and Bob the bunny is still sick, Mary knows that something is still
wrong.

That night, when all the lights are off and the Christmas decorations have stopped glistening,
Mary whispers a message to her friend in the attic, knowing that she’s listening.

The Christmas Angel, stowed away in the rafters, not chosen this year to top the tree,
Stirs as Mary summons her to help fulfil the duty of the Repairy Fairy.

Mary asks Angel, as darkness lingers, to watch over Bob as he fights his illness,
Angel swoops down, flutters her wings, driving away the germs within . . . then, in the stillness
. . .

Glorious, glittery snowflakes start to fall as the winter sun rises in the sky.
Bob awakes, still poorly, and Mabel starts to cry for fear that her gorgeous Bob may die.

The Repairy Fairy knows that her work to fix Mabel’s broken wish is not yet done.
She’s had help from the Christmas Star and Angel and now her chances are down to one.

After the day’s snowfall and the children’s delight in creating a snowman anew,
Mary knows what to do and who to ask and how to make Mabel’s unkept promise come true.

At nightfall, Mary needs the help of the big, icy snowman sitting upon the lawn.
She asks him to feed Bob his carrot-nose so its healing powers of magic are born.

The next morning, Bob awakes with the lark and springs from his bed - ready, willing and able.
There’s just one person he can’t wait to see, the greatest girl ever, his best friend, Mabel.

Charlotte O’Leary


Winner!
Massive congratulations to Charlotte.Your creative poem was our favourite from the whole collection. You have won £200 in Proprint self-publishing vouchers and a copy of this anthology.
Well done!