sometimes the hero stumbles
and falls right off of the page,
sometimes the princess rolls her eyes
and says “I don’t want to be saved.”
sometimes the dragon needs rescuing
and the villain aches to be helped,
sometimes, in the darkness,
the lost boy finds himself.
sometimes the prince is cunning,
and not at all what he seemed,
sometimes the witch’s kindness
shows it’s she who deserves to be queen.
sometimes we shouldn’t define people
by someone else’s point of view –
just because it’s what we’ve been told,
doesn’t make it t r u e.
*a poem from srwpoetry, which I found on the interweb, and which I share with you because it’s what we do, on occasion, weekends mostly because ‘dem ‘dere days of rest matter! srwpoetry is Sian Wilmot, a London-based British writer and teacher who started posting her poetry on Tumblr over a decade ago. She now posts regularly across social media as @srwpoetry and her book ‘The Butterfly Effect (and other poems)’ is available on Amazon. for more on Wilmot, https://srwpoetry.com