She laughed as she ran
With her woolly hair splayed out like a dandelion
Ripe for wishing
“Here!” she proclaimed, “Look where we are!”
A kingdom of grass and old cars and stars
And you can be anything you want
And she beamed a huge toothy grin
And so they were everything
They were dinosaurs and wizards and knights and large cats
And they grew together
And knew that they were the same
Until they were told that was a lie
Because she preferred blue, and he liked yellow
And on that same subject her skin was the wrong color
And it made people scared
And it was not okay
So they covered her skin
To make people less scared
And they cut off her hair
And the wishes went too
But it wasn’t enough
Because he liked yellow, and she preferred blue
And so they took her away
And people breathed sighs of relief
He cried as he ran
Back to the kingdom
Where he could be anything he wanted
But this was no longer a place for wishing
