When teachers gave me problems to solve,
numbers to conquer,
shapes to calculate,
no matter how hard it was,
I always figured out the answers
with time and a pencil.
Mrs Sanders said,
You aren’t a genius, Allison Daniels,
but you’re smart enough.
What use is smarts now?
She said,
Keep it up
and you’ll go places, young lady.
But she never imagined my life.
She didn’t know I needed
different lessons.