My Favourite Kids

 

My favourite kids are at the back of the class

Alone and different, the others walk past

These are the ones whose futures will be great

Bank on them any day, these are the ones I rate

 

The ones who can’t sit still and disrupt their peers

It’s not their fault they are beyond their years

Waiting to burst free from a confined institution

Instead medication seems to be the only solution

 

Why not harness these bountiful energies

Guide their talents into what they’re meant to be

These are the ones whose futures will be great

Bank on them any day, these are the ones I rate

 

My favourite kids sit at the front of the class

Alone and different, the others walk past

Stigmatized, bullied for their intellectual abilities

The world they will rule, just you wait and see

 

Their thoughts go beyond the walls that they sit in

Hurt by the laughter they must endure to listen

They might not dress, speak or act like you

One day you’ll need their help and help they will do

 

Befriend these kids for they are the special ones

Like all kids they just want to have some fun

Stigmatized, bullied for their intellectual abilities

The world they will rule, just you wait and see

 

My favourite kids are the kids who are different

I feel their pain, like them I just never fit in

Now I am the one who is constantly being pursued

So remember to be kind and never to be rude

 

It is kids like me who will always come out ahead

We suffered through the sadness, chose to smile instead

I ask you to thinkGood. thoughts and make a friend today

Never forget the kid who is different, don’t let them fade away

 

-Tannis Khan

 

doGood. feelGood. liveGood.

-Team thinkGood.

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