Luci's Poem

I've helped my classroom students write and perform an opera for the past two years. This year we won't be able to participate, but you can find all of the information on this great program at, http://www.operabychildren.org/

One of my Opera by Children mentors sent me a poem when she saw a picture of my little Luci. Below is the poem written by Pamela Gee of the Utah Festival Opera Company, and I"m including the picture that inspired the poem. I still can't read the entire poem without crying.

Dear Luci, What an example of faith. May I be like you day by day I pray.

I want to come to Earth,

Gain a body of great worth.

I know the challenges I will face

When I leave my heavenly home

Too soon and much too small.

But I will give my life my all.

To learn to live,

To suck, to breath,

To feel a family’s touch.

To learn these things,

To live these things,

Nothing I give is too much.

You can see it in my eyes

The determination,

The will, the grit.

For I am a child of God in spirit

Now of body bone and flesh.

I know how to live and love

And what I must accomplish.

~Pamela Gee