Dear Elementary School teachers,

It has been years since we have spoken

Since you let me slip away into the system

Forgot me, and my talents

Ignored what I couldn’t do.

Well I am no longer that kid,

You made me believe I was.

That I would never write,

Never read,

Never amount to anything.

That I was no more then stupid,

A kid who was only good, at some things,

But only ever, sometimes.

I am here to say I am more

I am not a statistic.

I am not a kid you can forget.

What I have done has been of no help from you

You never taught me anything,

You never taught me to read or write

Just that I never could.

Nothing to make me believe,

You never did what teachers were supposed to do.

You never taught me I could change the world.

But I did it anyway.

Without your help,

Without you teaching me, what I needed to know

My future is now my own,

No thanks to you

You have done nothing for me

So now I am going to do nothing, for you

Except write this poem

To show as proof

That I have done more

Then you thought I ever could.