“I give this same assignment every year!”
“Please write what you want to be when you grow up...
and remember:
there’s no wrong answer here.”
The answers were predictable
doctor, fireman, astronaut...
Super hero, secret agent,
owner of a yacht.
The teacher read with interest
as their grammar she corrected
until she came across one paper
with an answer unexpected.
It was written by a shy little girl
who didn’t want a super power.
When I grow up, she wrote in capital letters,
I want to be a wild flower.
Because bringing beauty to the world
is a flower’s livelihood
and I want to grow in places
no one ever thought I would.
‘You already bring beauty to my world’, the teacher wrote
‘And I know you’ll find a way...
to grow anywhere you want to.”
and she graded it an A.
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