A mentor, what’s a mentor to me?
What’s the ideal mentor that’s helped me to be
The best person that I could possibly be
So that I may be mentor too for people like me
A mentor, a mentor
Unlocks unopened doors
Of the untapped chambers of my heart to what’s more
To project a perspective of the potential of what’s in store So I’ll have dove eyes and eagles’ wings to sore
I’ll have to be honest,
Most my mentors were female scholars,
Teachers and some doctors,
Soul survivors called to take me higher
A Mentor, a mentor
Instead I say a femtor,
What’s that you ask?
I can answer that at best, no second guess, and pass the test:
A femtor is the female version of a mentor, of a mentor, of a, of a mentor…
Alright, alright, I digress, more or less I must still share with you the ones that had me impressed:
My 7th grade teacher Mrs. Greene
Who thought my poetry was very sweet,
Encouraged me to enter contests and knock the judges of their feet
Now that’s a mentor to me
Or my teacher Mrs. Jones
Who would listen to me with open arms
To all my poems that I wrote
And said writing for me was not so hard
She was embodiment of mentor
Male mentors to mention,
Casey, Chatham, & Granite
Teachers of science and theatre
And one a doctor who helped to manage
Vision issues on the real that was a hurtle and a challenge
Mentoring me to see past what I could ever fathom
And then college suddenly appeared
And femtors were certainly revered
In the hardest seasons of my life throughout all the years
To help me flourish for the moments of my future career
Femtors like Sara and Kathleen and Joan,
Debbie, Kris, and Stephanie and Maryann
All these femtors have helped me see just how tall I can stand
And finish with Bachelor’s in the rarities that is
And just a quick word
I’d be remissed if you hadn’t heard
A huge part of my life
Was the faith built and lessons learned
The mentors, the femtors
Were people at my church
Who listened in my hardest times
And helped me see my worth
The mentor, the mentor
The mentor is my Lord
Who healed my spiritual wounds
And touched my heart the deepest core
A mentor, what’s a mentor to you?
What’s the ideal mentor that’s helped you to bloom
Helped you to soar zoom, pulled up from your doom
So that you can a mentor too for folks now in your shoes