My daughter handed me this poem in an offhand manner yesterday. She'd written it with a large green marker in a sparkly notebook, in her bed with a flashlight after lights out. She's nine. I'm pretty sure I'm done as a novelist, because I don't know if I could ever match "sneeky and brave." But that's okay.
Girl's Eye
by Sadie Netzer
From a girl's eye things
Must be pretty or perfect,
But some say okay and
Go on with their lives.
So some are princesses
And some are ninjas
And some just go on.
They all think differently but the
Eye of a girl is all the same.
The girl's eye is pretty and perfect and
Bright and so sneeky and brave.
We know what is right and
wrong, we know if something
is bad, we all see the same
and know the same.
So the girl's eye is
Amazing in so many ways,
But it never gets old.
