The teacher played the recording just softly
Enough for the students to hear the tones,
The chords, and a fine gentle melody.
Though it was as though only one listened …
When he saw that she raised her little hand
He smiled and appeared before her blond desk.
“Maria,” he said, recalling her name …
“Yes,” she said with the truest smile, perhaps
Happy he knew her name when a year passed.
She asked her teacher for the music’s name.
“It’s called, ‘Arrival of the Birds’,” he said.
“Oh, I want it for a ringtone for my phone …
Could you write it down for me please,” she asked,
As she pushed her notebook to the desk’s corner.
He wrote the title and the orchestra
Between blue lines as surely as he could
“I don’t read script too well,” Maria said.
Then he engraved the page with capitals
Clear enough surely for any child to read …
But she was not just any child … she was
Maria, who loved this music so much
That she wanted it for her ringtone.
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