We are like leaves
Shooting in beauty
Opening our arms
Just to fold in dryness
And eventually break into pieces
Or worse be plucked unfairly in bloom
So do grow another
Or touch another
Who will remember your touch
When wilting succeeds
In making you manure.
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014

4 replies on “TOUCH A HEART”
Wonderful–and interesting final line. I meant to ask, what age students, and subjects do you teach?
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Between 14 and 18. I am a high school teacher. Thank you for the kind words.
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I admire you so–my mother was a teacher, and I considered it for a short while, but didn’t.
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It is tiring but a blessing. There is never a dull moment and if you are as cute as I am, it takes discipline, love and fairness for students to see you for who you are, a teacher, or they will treat you like a colleague. But it is all good.
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