Sometimes the hero stumbles

and falls right off the page.

Sometimes the pricess

rolls her eyes and says,

“I don’t want to be saved.”

Sometimes, in the darkness,

the lost boy finds himself.

Sometimes the prince is cunning

and not at all who he seemed.

Sometimes the thief’s kindness shows

it’s he who deserves to be king.

Sometimes we shouldn’t define people

based on somebody else’s point of view –

Just because it’s what we’ve been told

doesn’t make it true.