by Grace Nichols
Give yourself a hug
when you feel unloved
Give yourself a hug
when people put on airs
to make you feel a bug
Give yourself a hug
when everyone seems to give you
a cold-shoulder shrug
Give yourself a hug --
a big big hug
And keep on singing,
'Only one in million like me
Only one in a million-billion-thrillion-zillion
like me.'
from Poetry by Heart: A Child's Book of Poems to Remember
compiled by Liz Attenborough
Scholastic 2001
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