Monday, 7 December 2020

On Mystery

 


Micah


I am not me

I am a teacher with one student

who I treat carefully

for I have been told

he is fragile and given to outbursts

might even lash out

so I let him teach me 

how to teach him.


He is young, perhaps 13

I sit by him while he teaches me

a subject I have never studied before

I dare not make a sound

not because of what he might do

but because I need to understand him.


A voice tells me his name is Micah.


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