He sits there every day in that poster
Does anybody know the name of that teddy bear
Nobody knows what he is looking at, he is only staring
He is alone, only with the chair in which he is sitting
No worries on life and how to make a living
His glossy eyes stare at you like a tiny thumbtack
He is not your average teddy bear
He made it into the poster
The poster that is held by the mighty thumbtack
He sees everything while he is staring
He doesn’t talk while he is living
Nor breathe, or move, all he does is sitting
Is he really there and living
In that poster where he is sitting
Or is he like that mighty thumbtack
Planted on a wall and stuck into a poster
Have you ever stopped to talk to that teddy bear
You are kind of like that teddy bear
You are stuck here with the world as your poster
Are you really here and living
Or is all you do sitting and staring
For on this world you will always be sitting
Decorate your house and buy a poster
Be nice and smile like a teddy bear
Get out in the world and see where you are sitting
Talk to people instead of staring
Run and jump and start living
Hold your own like the mighty thumbtack
So I ask again about that poster
The one with you, that teddy bear
Have you done anything more than staring
Are you up and about and not sitting
Have you had fun and really been living
Or are you stuck on the wall like the thumbtack
He sits and stares in the poster
Never really living
All he does is sitting and staring
There on the wall like the mighty thumbtack
We are all like that teddy bear
In this world we are sitting
Talk to the world instead of staring
And stand up and start living
Don’t be that teddy bear in the poster
By Patrick Duchette
Oak Hill High School
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