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What Do You Want To Be?



Yesterday my teacher said:

‘What do you want to be?’

I thought this was a very strange thing

To be asking me.


I questioned what she meant by this,

As I was so confused.

She looked at me and smiled,

As if she was most amused.


‘What job you want, of course,’ she scoffed,

Like I was quite obtuse.

I had no answer ready,

So I thought of some excuse.


‘A job does not define us, miss’

I hoped she would agree.

‘It’s just a way to make ends meet,

It’s mere necessity.’


‘My peers and I will work to live,

Not the other way around.

There are many things more valuable

Than dollars, yen or pounds.’


‘So, to answer you with honesty

About what I want to be.

I hope that I’ll be kind and wise,

But most of all happy.’




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