Misconceptions

• Sahar Khayat, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2014

Girls are read fairy-tales believing

their saviour will rush to their doorstep

and sweep them off their feet.

Anticipation awaits those eyes

that will sparkle like diamonds

and that utterly flawless smile

that will melt her heart like butter.

He will become the sunshine to her day

and the reason the world finally

starts to makes sense.

Deception creeps into those girls

who don’t doubt the existence of prince charming.

Delusion devours those girls

that rely on being saved.

What these girls don’t learn is

YOU have to become the change that

YOU want to see.

Because the world isn’t perfect… and neither is he.