The speaker looks back on a relationship that began beautifully. Once things got going, everything felt easy, and the speaker describes it as a fairytale: she was treated like a princess, and the other person was her prince. The words "magical" and "smoothly" show how complete and untroubled that happiness seemed at the time.
Then the tone shifts. "But little did i know" signals that the speaker is now seeing the past with hindsight, and the word "wicked" suggests the relationship went badly wrong, though the poem never says how. That silence is part of its effect. The final line, set apart by a dash, reads like a lesson learned the hard way: not every fairytale ends beautifully. The mood moves from dreamy and warm to sad and disillusioned. The simple, plain language and lowercase style make it feel like a quiet, personal confession rather than a polished story.