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A/n: I wrote this for class and decided to use it for a fic. Hopefully you like it!
Ode To A Teacher
I can look back and remember my childhood now. When I was six and my brother Davey was almost eleven. I can remember a woman. Her name was Mary but we called her Nanny beacuse that's what she was. My Mom and Dad hired her and she stayed in our apartmant to look after us.
That year, my sixth year of life, Sarah turned thirteen and they decided she was old enough to look after David and I so they fired Nanny.
OUr teacher came to the front of the class and said: "I need you all to write an ode. It should be to a teacher. Anyone who has ever taught you something."
I'm not a writer, but I wrote dow how much I missed NAnny and how much I liked being with her. How much she looked after me.
Knowing mentor,
Learned educator of the grandest kind,
You used to pull me onto your lap,
While to me you read,
From things of imagination,
That sparkled and created,
Wonder,
And marvellous things for me to see.
If I fell,
You would pick me up,
And press to my wounds,
Band Aids,
Like gentle hugs,
That embraced my knees,
So that they bled no longer.
In the days when tickles,
Was all it took for giggles,
To happen,
Filling the house with joy,
And the sound of,
Laughter,
As if it was,
Wafting throughout the house,
And dancing,
Through the hallways.
These happy days were enough,
To keep me from being bad,
In the fear that,
You would chastise me,
And send me to,
The corner,
Which was full of sadness,
And only dark thoughts,
From its captives before.
"Share," you would tell me,
Smiling softly,
Patting my head,
Knowing that I never meant to be,
Mischievous,
Or to behave badly.
These things you taught me,
And the whole time,
I looked up to you,
And smiled as you praised my advances,
Basking in the splendour,
That was your approval,
Wishing that Neverland,
Was drifting close by,
So that I would never grow up,
And so that would need you,
Forever.
If I had handed it in, I may have gotten an A.
End
((What do you think? I really did write that in class and decided that I should post it beacuse I was bored. I like poetry. Yay! Reviews please!!!))