I Hope She Chooses Life

Life as we know it

is about to be over

Life as we've lived it

is about to become bolder

From Ovid and Seneca

to Plutarch and Chaucer

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

is a mastery of learning

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 

And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

~ William Shakespeare, 1609

This is a road map

to all that we can be

And if you would just see 

all that you can be

As I see ye

(*Written for a former student who has tried to commit suicide three times

and who woke up today who found out her best friend killed themselves yesterday)

I DON'T CARE how smart I am

how big I am

how rich I can become

I CARE about this former student 

who can hold on

to all that they HAVE BECOME

and all that THEY CAN BECOME

And if they don't...

I have failed...

this student

This beautiful....

student

~ Written by

a teacher who cares

 404 years after Shakespeare

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

I hope she chooses life