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The instructor said,
Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you�
Then, it will be true.
If it comes out of me, it�ll be true?
I guess I can try, and live up to those standards,
While failing all the time.
That�s what my life is now,
striving to be right, while knowing I�m wrong.
I�m just a 16 year old kid from Kansas,
been as far east as Tennessee, west to Utah,
been north to Minnesota, south to Texas.
I live in a bubble, or so people�ve said.
Yet, in spite of all this, I too claim a hold on Truth, of the highest order.
I�m sitting here writing this,
trying my hardest to pour out my heart,
while not looking too deep into myself,
afraid of what I might find, what I�ve found before.
Well, my heart is this: living life not for myself,
but to give much-deserved glory to my King.
And no earthly king could deserve such devotion and praise,
I could only settle for perfection and He is God.
�Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for Me.�
And I want so desperately to serve Him.
I want so desperately to come before Him,
to hear Him say �Well done, My good and faithful servant.�
Both of us know that I�ll always fail, but He�s taken care of that.
And so I serve Him, by serving everyone else.
I go to Tennessee and help repair a trailer.
I go to an old woman�s house and rake her yard.
I go on the Internet and try to help others know Him more completely.
So, teacher, that�s me, or at least I am that.
I�ll try my hardest to respect the authority you have been given,
so please don�t think I�m rebellious, I�m just independent.
And I�d hope you could learn to respect that in me, as I will respect you.
You teach and I�ll try to learn, that�s really all I can promise.
That�s really all I can say.
I hope I can become the student you�d like me to be,
As long as I can still, in the process, be me.
This is my page for English III.
[revised 07.31.02]
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