I Never Wanted to Be

Why couldn't the monks see

That being the Avatar wasn't for me?

I didn't believe them at first,

But when I did, I felt like I was going to burst.

When the other kids found out,

I had begun to doubt,

That no one would ever want to know about,

How I never wanted to be.

After awhile Monk Gyatso became more than a teacher to me,

But we were only friends to a certain degree.

Then one day I over heard,

Three of the monks having a word.

One of them wanted to send me away,

But Monk Gyatso told the other to let me stay.

In the end, he said nay.

I ended up running away that night,

I sat on Appa and he took flight.

While we were flying we ran into a storm,

All the time feeling like I'd never be warm.

Appa swerved and we fell into the water,

And I was awoken by someone who was apparently young enough to be my granddaughter.

As it turns out I had been trapped in an ice burg for one hundred years,

I felt my eyes begin to form tears.

Later I found out that the Fire Nation had started a war,

And the airbenders(except for me) weren't around anymore.

I soon made it my mission to put balance back in our lands,

Ironic, isn't it, to put the fate of the world in a twelve year olds hands?

And now, surely you must see,

Why I never wanted to be.