"But sohelpmegod he starts talkin bout a golden ball an how i can be a princess me a princess."
Ah, the fairytale poem at last! However, it's a little bit different because of the dialect and sentence structure as a whole. First off, nothing is capitalized or punctuated, so it was confusing to know when to pause. Secondly, everything is written with a southern dialect. I don't know if this is style of the speaker or of Katharyn Howd Machan. However, all of these southern-sounding words remind me of Princess and the Frog. I feel that the central theme of the poem is to showcase that each of us are royalty to someone. We don't have to be princesses or princes, but deep within, we really are someone special. Hopefully we will find the person to make us believe that we are "a princess, me a princess." But isn't this difficult? To find someone who looks at us for our inner beauty instead of our exterior looks? I feel that the frog represents love as a whole. Some of us are terrified of opening our eyes to love because throwing ourselves out there frightens us. Some of us are just shocked because the person that God brings us is not always who we expect. But we have to look past all of this and give them a chance. We have to take chances in order to see what we really want in life.
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