DIRECTIONS: Read the poem aloud. Answer the question:
Sometimes I feel all thin inside
Insufficient; small;
I feel when people look at me
They don't see me at all.
I feel that all my beauty's lost
On cold, indifferent eyes
And offering what I want to give
Would only be unwise.
But then a friend will greet me
and my inner life will bloom
It only takes but one kind word
To sweep away the gloom!