TO
make
this world
a whole lot
brighter
when
I
grow up
I'll
be
a writer.
I'll
write about
some things
I know—
how to bunt
how to throw . . .
a Christmas wish
a butter dish . . .
a teddy bear
an empty chair . . .
the love I have inside
to
share . . .
Yes.
To
make
this world
a whole lot
birhgter,
when
I grow up
I'll
be
a
writer.
Copyright Credit: Lee Bennett Hopkins, "To (final poem)" from Been to Yesterdays. Copyright © 1995 by Lee Bennett Hopkins. Reprinted by permission of Wordsong Press, a division of Astra Publishing House.
Source: Been to Yesterdays (Wordsong Press, 1995)