hello.
i've missed your class
and the people in it
but that's not why i'm here
i'm here to thank you

i'm here to thank you for your support
thank you for everything
you did to help me understand
i might still not get it
but i'm much closer now

thank you for letting me be myself
thank you for all the laps i took
because i wouldn't have survived
thank you for putting up with me
i know it was hard

and most of all
thank you for introducing me to poetry
it's now my safe place
i write everything
and i never thought i'd say that

so thank you
thank you for all you did
i really did learn something
other than how to laugh
thank you