Teachers are playful and tricky
One of them
I always thought was an enemy

Until the day he said:
“You see Benjamin,
All this weeping on beautiful days
Was necessary:

I had to show you
What I don’t want you to be”

I had not realised then
He had my name
And looked exactly like me

Teachers are playful and tricky
When I meet one of my enemies
I now always ask
If he does not happen to be
One of those great teachers


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