A Little Goes a Long Way

I'd been absent all week,

But today, in school,

A girl talked to me—

A girl I'd always thought was cool.

"Today in math we have a quiz,"

She told me during lunch.

Math was next period,

So I thanked her very much.

No, it wasn't helpful;

No, I didn't need it;

Yet her comment still joyed me—

The way that I'd been treated.

The fact that someone thought about me;

How all that week I'd been away;

The fact that someone cared to tell me—

That made my day.