What Do You Want To Be?

What do you wat to be my child?
“A writer!
A great writer!”
Oh, no,
Shakespeare was a great writer,
And that’s taken.
“Then a composer,
A great composer.”
Oh, no,
Mozart was a composer,
A great composer,
And that’s taken.
Then an artist,
A great artist!”
Don’t you understand,
Leonardo DiVinci was a great artist,
And that, too, is taken.
“What else is left?
I don’t understand?
I know!
I know!
I’ll be a great me!”
You do understand!

-Ray Naddy