Scholarship Entry - Boy Who Cried Wolf Rewrite
Long ago there was a boy
Who had outgrown nearly every toy
His parent's thought him ungrateful
But rather he had become hateful
One day he decided to play a prank
On the townspeople who had no clue
He approached the town and cried
Of an approaching wolf he named Hank
The townspeople rose to defend their homes
From the wolf that was told to be
But one thing seemed to surprise
For it was a wolf no one could see
The boy continued his ruse
Shouting again and again
But people became confused
As there was never a wolf to be slain
The next year, the boy was on a walk
As he was met by a wolf who could talk
The boy ran away and knew what he created
And the wolf knew what he awaited
Less than a mile away, the boy tripped
Something, he was sure, had ripped
He hit his head on a rock
The boy did not return from his walk
When the boy awoke, he was confused
He was in a cylindrical room
with stone walls and a single broom
And the room had never been used
Appear from nowhere did the wolf
And he began to speak in a gravelly voice
"You are being punished," said the wolf
The boy looked on, confused and questioning his choice
"You have angered your peers,
Now you will be punished" said the wolf
The boy became horrified
And the wolf began to sneer
No one ever heard from the boy
And the rumors all ended in death
But the world moved on unaware of Roy
And he never breathed his last breath
Many years later another boy turned
Into an ungrateful one in which a plan churned
He would tell of a great wolf that would attack
But he went missing, and never came back