"Please Teach Me" Author unkown

Please teach me everything I’ll need,
Teach me to calculate and speak,
Teach me to stop being so weak:
Teach me to think and write and read.
‘Cause there isn’t much I’ll learn alone,
and my mind is hungry for your food,
the food for thought that makes us good
and without which we’re dry as stone.
Teach me to be just like yourself,
The person I so much admire,
The one whose intellectual fire
I wish I’ll have one day myself.
Take a seat and start to teach,
Let me thus the wonders see
Of this world where I will be
A bit better thanks to each
Of the teachers that I had,
and thanks to yourself, the one
who’s made me sure that I can,
that in fact, I’m not that bad
as a student. I’ll succeed.
You’re the one who made me start
To realize that it’s an art
To develop the great seed
That you planted in my young brain.
I’ll water that seed all the time
With your great teaching, and with time
You’ll see your efforts were not in vain.

 Since this is my last poetry response of the year I thought I would do a poem for Mrs. Coleman.  I picked this poem because of its ideas.  Even though it does not have a specific rhyme scheme, it has alot of heart and meaning that comes out of it.  Mrs. Coleman has taught me alot this year and has guided me through my senior year.  I did not always make the best grades or actually read all the chapters she assigned, which showed through my quizes, but she made class enjoyable and I learned alot.  Most students would say the amount of work we did was a little much and complain, but now that it is the end of the year I can say it was worth it and definitely has shown in the end.  This year was a great one, so thankyou Mrs. Coleman. :)