He Does Not Know His Strengths

Parent Teacher conferences are on Thursday Tommy has torn up the sign-up sheet three times Not wanting his parents and teacher to ever meet To compare notes and talk about how disrespectful he is how rude he was that one day. Expecting nothing wonderful to happen he is horrified when the teacher calls And the parents set a time. He dreads the conference, Only sensing bad stuff Fully wrong in his thinking As he is a wonderful lad, who needs to learn to focus on his strengths He has many, but does not believe them as they get together Speaking to each other in spite of his best efforts to keep them apart. What would they know? They pretend to like everybody. Even him. He sits in silence, whipping himself for a one-time infraction.