Fairy tales end with "happily ever after," but Bassey's speaker asks what an ending really is. She sets two very different images side by side: a bride and groom running off together, and a young girl "given away to cancer." The echo of a wedding phrase, "given away," makes the loss feel even crueler.
The speaker's tone is blunt and a little weary. "Let's face it" sounds like someone who has stopped believing the comforting version. Her real focus is not the person who dies but everyone left behind. They don't die too; they "move on" and even "forget." The poem doesn't sound angry about this so much as resigned, as if it's simply how life works.
The mood is quiet and sobering. The last line, "their life has to go on," feels both like a truth and a small heartbreak, because the story keeps moving whether we want it to or not.