We Teach Children
by Ina Hughs
We teach children
Who put chocolate fingers everywhere.
Who like to be tickled.
Who stomp in puddles and ruin their new shoes.
Who sneak popsicles before supper.
Who erase holes in math workbooks.
Who can never find their pencil.
We teach children
Who never get dessert.
Who have no safe blanket to drag behind them.
Who don't have a room to clean up.
Whose pictures aren on anybodys' dresser.
Whose monsters are real.
Who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink.
We teach children
Who spend al their allowance before Tuesday.
Who throw tantrums in the grocery store.
Who pick at thier food.
Who like ghost stories.
Who squirm in church and scream in the phone.
Whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry.
We teach children
Who will eat anything.
Who have never seen a dentist.
Who aren't spoiled by anybody.
Who want to be carried and those we must.
Who will grap the hand of anybody kind enough to offer it.
Who don't get a second chance.
Hi Ashley,
ReplyDeleteThis poem causes me to think about children who are preveliged and underprivileged. If the teacher teaches and cares for these children then no matter the situation she will inspire them.
Vanessa