Not Another Number
I am a reader, a thinker, a doer.
I can love and lose and heal.
Though my dreams are grandeur.
Teachers want me to fit their ideal.
I can count and I can add.
My English skills are elite
but, never had I been so mad
as when called a score on a sheet.
I really thought I had
finally made an impression.
Then never had I been so sad
as when called a scored on a sheet.