A Classroom of Stars

When Jake put up his hand
To answer a question
Everyone was amazed.
Jake never did that, never!
Then Saida did the same.
Saida? The quiet girl?
We were properly stunned
By these stars in our classroom
That were suddenly shining.

One by one our hands went up,
We shone and shimmered
In our classroom universe.
Brian Cox hadn’t seen these stars yet.
It was our teacher who discovered them,
Finding the light that he knew
Lay inside all of us
In our classroom universe,
In his classroom of stars.