Today we are featuring Inklings Book Contest 2016 finalist, Lila Tierney! Lila finished 2nd grade this past school year. She wrote a poem describing just what she would do if she wrote the fairy tales we all know. Maybe next year she’ll write one for us!
Why?
by Lila Tierney
Why do they put princesses
in every story book?
Why are they considered
just by how they look?
Why do they expect girls
to just sit there,
wasting time for HOURS,
only to end up
being picked like flowers?
If I was the writer
of the stories from afar,
I would make each girl
like a superstar!
She wouldn’t wear dresses
and high heels and rings.
There wouldn’t be “Prince Charmy”
to mess up things.
She wouldn’t get married.
She’d live on her own.
She wouldn’t be perfect.
She’d break a bone!
The girls would live together
Supporting each other.
They’d have no fathers,
only a mother.
And this, my child,
is what I would do
to these ancient stories
passed down to you.
The End
