The duck I am
Always convinced
Self-sold of my ideas.
Lectures
Schools
Relatives
Friends
I'm smarter
I'll protest
I'll eat the roots!
I want the pure truth!
Only from good old man!
Aristotle
Nietzsche
Plato.
Not any half-baked fool
Vomiting cliches and sarcasms
Everyone's ever gotten.
Yet
From the sun
Drenched in light
Simply
She
Just
Gave me an eye
The one she's always had
And said
You see
You see the trees?
The ants and leaves
High-resolution
Compass
Seas
Birds
Little symbols
Of hope
Little metaphors
Of life
Little children
Of God.
Without a book
Or agenda
Or pushing
Or trying
I saw
I respected
I related
I empathized
I felt
I understood
The only teacher
I've ever gotten.