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The Spirit of a Teacher

If Christa McAuliffe

came back as a ghost

and sought out the ones that she loved most

along with her family, who to her were dear,

she'd look up her students, her heart they were near

and to them all, I think she'd say

"Forget me not and for me pray,

and for the others of the crew,

what they were doing, they were doing for you."

Then she would tell them "For me don't cry,

for I my chance to reach for the sky.

That I didn't make it I never knew,

for I had died when the Challenger blew."

"Now," she would say, "The turn is yours,

to fly into space and open doors

and you'll never know what's on the other side

till you've taken the chance, until you've tried,

and you have you try,

it's man's place

to put his footprints in the sands of space."

Now Christa McAuliffe will return no more,

for to this world, God's closed the door.

but I know that her spirit is living up high,

up on the heavens, up in the sky....