Pomegranate Flowers: NaPoWriMo 2022: The Changeling & I

while reading Catherynne Valente's The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

[4/2/2022]

What is it like, dear boy

To have a heart so big it keeps on beating

No matter how often it is caged

In words like “no” and “not Normal”?

What is it like, dear troll,

To be full of the treasures you’re eating,

See yourself on a picture-book page,

Hold worlds inside your memory tunnel?

I was small once, too.

I looked into the blue and thought

Of conquering kings and feathered horses,

And hopes which could not be bought.

But little one, I hid

And tried to do as I was bid,

Never shouted for stars in their courses

Unlike you.