<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For My History Teacher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m sitting in class, <br>My eyes about to close, <br>I hope teacher don’t see, <br>I hope she don’t see me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bored out of my mind, <br>Falling so behind, <br>Cannot concentrate, <br>I came to class too late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although I was on time, <br>My body was I mean, <br>My mind is still outside, <br>From class trying to hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What does all this mean? <br>I haven’t used it yet, <br>How can I retain it, <br>When already I forget? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then she walks over, <br>That teacher of mine, <br>A smile in her eyes, <br>A gentle one at that, <br>She puts her hand on me, <br>And sets me kind of free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now here I am in class, <br>Learning about the past, <br>About history, <br>And what it did for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How we can learn, <br>From mistakes of old, <br>Of people so different, <br>Some so very bold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some stood against oppression, <br>Some stood against the wrong, <br>Some said it with dignity, <br>Some said it with a song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I owe it to them, <br>And teacher here to hear, <br>What they did for us, <br>And no longer fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That knowledge is so dull, <br>No longer hurts my brain, <br>No longer hurts my skull, <br>It will surely keep me sane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The past is the future, <br>Unless I stay awake, <br>So I can benefit, <br>There’s much more at stake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Than I thought before, <br>Before I got to class, <br>Thank you History teacher, <br>For bringing to life the past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never got bored in History class, because I had a wonderful History Teacher. This is for her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aisha+Sherazi">Aisha Sherazi</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553048" data-title="For My History Teacher de Aisha Sherazi" data-description="I’m sitting in class, My eyes about to close, I hope teacher don’t see, I hope she don’t see me. Bored out of my mind, Falling so behind, Cannot concentrate, I came to class too late. Although I was on time, My body was I mean, My ..."></div> </div> </div>

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