EnCoUrAgEmEnT is so important.

The Average Child

by Mike Buscemi
I don’t cause teachers trouble;
My grades have been okay.
I listen in my classes.
I’m in school every day.
My teachers think I’m average; My parents think so too.
I wish I didn’t know that, though; There’s lots I’d like to do.
I’d like to build a rocket; I read a book on how.
Or start a stamp collection… But no use trying now.
’Cause, since I found I’m average, I’m smart enough you see
To know there’s nothing special I should expect of me.
I’m part of that majority, that hump part of the bell,
Who spends his life unnoticed
In an average kind of hell.
**This poem was written by a 14 year-old boy who committed suicide not long after writing this poem.  Never underestimate the power of encouragement, regardless of age.

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