If I ever do (become a writer)
If I ever do become a writer
one Isabel Pritchard pens
a letter to her 8C teacher
at Oaklands High 1992
(thanking her for having
faith in her promising
to dedicate her first book to her)
Yet another bit of history
unearthed in our household
in between and betwixt Africa
and Youth Months
If I ever do become a writer
for that is what I wish to be
a dreamer too she says
(sounds like teacher’s
John Lennon influence)
When she writes she feels
as if she is giving a part
of herself away
(did she follow her passion
her dream in some way
educating and encouraging)
She stops herself
(I will have to end it
says she dramatically)
before her letter turns
into a novel
Ending with something
her tea-drinkingly English
teacher quoted
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
which cannot fly
Did she stop herself
Did she hold fast and fly
A “Dear Miss” letter surfaces in the Kapp household, circa end-May into June 2015.
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