Who Told You You Were Special?

She told me I was special,

my teacher Miss McVay

She said, “You’re special person.

You’ll do special things someday.

You’ll be a special president, an emperor, a king.

If you put your mind to it,

you could do anything”

But I grew up and years went by

And so special anymore

So I went back to Miss McVay

and knocked upon her door

I asked ‘how come I didn’t

do all those special things you said I’d do?’

She looked me right dead in the eye

and said

“Who the hell are you?”