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TEACH ME TO FLY      by:  SHARON HEANEY STANSFIELD

17/6/2013

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 Teach me to fly.
 Let my ideas soar to the beckoning sky.
 Don’t keep me trapped 
Inside your box of rules
 Parameters and traditions.
 
My mind wants to fly.
 A starship to explore galaxies
 Of new ideas.
 
When I move and touch
 And feel and smell,
 My brain awakes
 My thoughts take flight.
 New ideas link to the old.
 
A new future takes shape
 Bright and bold.

Socrates taught people to think
 No desks, no ink.
 Under a tree Newton found gravity.
 Einstein found relativity.
 Not at school,
 Where he was labelled a fool.
 Freed  from his desk
 He let his mind soar. 
  
I don’t know if my thoughts have the power 
Of those who went before.
 But I know my mind’s connections
 Are brighter, faster 
  When they are set free from my desk,
 Past traditions,
 Present restrictions.
 
Encourage me
 To question,
 To touch, hold, be bold,
 Even to make mistakes!
 
Exploring galaxies of ideas
 Is mankind’s life adventure.
 Each generation’s task
 To teach the next to go further
Than the last.
 
So take me out of the class,
 Let me move
Use all my senses.
 Let my mind soar among the galaxies.
 Teach me to fly!
                                                   SHARON HEANEY STANSFIELD
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