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What Did You Put in Your Pocket?

This poem gently peers into a child’s invisible “pocket of the heart.”

What it holds are not objects, but kindness and sincerity received from friends, along with quiet wishes about the kind of person one hopes to become.

Even when uneasiness spills out from time to time, the pocket continues to fill with trust, courage, and dreams.

The poem softly celebrates the inner source of a child’s growth and the preciousness of what they carry within.

 

“What Did You Put in Your Pocket?”

 

Your pocket—

a mysterious pocket

 

What did you put in your pocket just now?

I put in a friend’s kindness

 

What did you put in your pocket just now?

I put in a friend’s sincerity

 

What did you put in your pocket just now?

I put in the wish to become someone like this

 

What did you put in your pocket just now?

I put in the wish to do something like this

 

What’s inside your pocket?

It’s full of kindness I want to share

 

What’s about to spill out of your pocket?

Restless feelings sometimes tumble out

 

What do you want to put in your pocket?

A me who wants to keep smiling

A me who wants to keep believing in friends

A me who won’t give up on dreams

People who love me just as I am

 

Your mysterious pocket

No matter how much you put in, it never tears

Your magical pocket

Gives you courage to become kind and strong

Your one and only pocket

A pouch of memories you must never lose

 

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