Me? A Princess?

"an how i can be a princess
me a princess"
Hazel Tells LaVerne

In the above poem, the author creates a light, humorous tone. However, her theme, to me, was a bit more depressing. I believe the poem discussed every person's tendency to have low confidence in themselves. Yes, expecting people to believe we are all princesses is a bit unrealistic. However, the fact that the speaker is so completely shocked by the idea of being a princess shows how she would never expect something so great to happen to her. It reflects both her low self esteem and her low expectancy for her life. The frog being flushed down the toilet creates quite a different ending than in Disney's The Princess and the Frog or even the traditional Frog Prince fairytale. With the frog, the speaker is metaphorically flushing her hopes and dreams down the toilet, writing them off as unrealistic. I think the author is telling us not to flush our dreams away, because we will never know where they could have taken us.