To My English Professor

If I could set the standards I must meet,

Does common sense not indicate that I,

Would place the bar mere inches from my feet,

To effortlessly clear it when I try?

 

Or do I choose a steeper, nobler path?

One fraught with challenges at every turn,

Praying to God to spare me from His wrath,

While I with pride the lighter burdens spurn.

 

Our mentor, Socrates said, “Know thyself.”

Surely a task much easier said than done.

There is but one book found upon my shelf,

To help me gauge how my life’s race is run.

 

But if to you, myself I must compare,

Of any passing grade I should despair.

 

Louis William Rose
October 2003

 

(Written during the class “Writing Prose” taught by Doctor Jeanette Berger  at the University of North Florida as a response requesting a one-page cover letter which was to include a written self-evaluation and a grade)

 

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