Friday, October 12, 2007

Poetry Friday: David's Poem

What if your going always got tough?
What if your good enough, was never enough?
What if your best was less than middle of the road?
What if communicating was always a top-secret code?

Would you continue to give it all you have got?
Would you accept your abilities, depite all you are not?
Would you continue to move forward, depite the effort so great?
Or would you give up and just chalk it up to fate?

What if your best was really just good enough?
Or your improvements and efforts were seen as up to snuff?
Even when others had done better than you-
The people around you saluted all your efforts too...

Wouldn't it be great if we all felt this way?
If we were seen just as remarkeable as the kids in "up, up & away..."
I know that I do, in fact, have gifts that are true.
I hope that you will take time to see my talents and help me see them too.

2 comments:

Mary Lee said...

Is this a poem for David in THE VERY WORST THING, or a poem for a "David" in your school? Either way, it is powerful. And, I assume, original?

Unknown said...

Yes, I wrote it from David's perspective in THE VERY WORST THING. Thanks! - Sarah