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A Toast To The Things I Love Most
Let us raise a toast, to the things I love most
To the good and the bad,
All the happy and sad
Let us raise a toast
Here’s to the girl who sat at my lunch table on the first day of middle school,
You stuck around for years even after I was so cruel
And the boy in History, who doesn’t quite like me
He constantly makes me laugh ‘cause his jokes are so funny
And let’s give a hand to the one I talk to
About things she doesn’t understand
She goes out of her way to make sure I’m okay
Let us raise a toast, to the things I love most
To the dreams and the nightmares
To the hushed whispers and hard stares
Let us raise a toast
To the educators who teach outside of the classroom
That listen and understand,
The ones who actually give a damn
Thank you for lifting voices instead of watching us drown
It can be so hard in this small-minded town
So let’s raise a toast to the things I love most
Thank you for mangoes and rockets
For dresses with pockets
Books and movies, music that’s groovy
For clothes to thrift and Taylor Swift
Let us raise a toast
Here’s to all those times death knocked on my door
And I said “not today”
Here’s to the times I’ve loved
And the times I’ve been betrayed
Life is a mosaic of everyone you’ve ever met
So here’s a toast to knowing that not everything is set.
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My English assignment was to curate a "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude" (which is a poem by Ross Gay that we read in class). The assignment was very opened ended and while I was at work, I created this short poem in 15-20 minutes. Shoutout to Mr. Watts for encouraging me to publish this.