Stickers

The teacher store sold stickers

Which I often did employ

On students’ compositions

To add just a little joy.

A smiley face, a yellow star

Or glowing words of praise

Were the tools I used to soften

All the errors of their ways.

But now that I’m retired

I’m still stickering, although

It is now done with my grandchild

And she loves her stickers so!

She has quite a huge collection

So she’s free to use her mind

To create artistic scenes

With all the stickers she can find.

Her grandpa and her nana (me!)

Join her, but please don’t mock

For we stick with her for hours

Never feeling sticker shock!