Verse by Art Fettig – Copyright© 1987
Mentors are people who truly love
what they are doing,
and want to share that love and skill
with someone they believe might do it.
Mentors don’t do it for you –
they point the way and stand back
and watch you stumble and grow.
They know that life is really
a “Do-it-Yourself” project
and difficult things come easy,
often unappreciated, prove useless.
Mentees, nearly always, at times feel
their Mentor is holding back –
and it is true and necessary,
for craftsmanship demands a vast amount
of try and fail.
Mentors quietly care, and they
silently cheer you on,
and every little challenge that you overcome
burns joyfully within their hearts.
Mentors give unselfishly, most likely
because once, in their past,
they knew a Mentor who shared,
and cared and silently cheered them on.
For this is a continuous,
self-perpetuating process.
Mentees grow, and when they’ve reached
a level of success,
they then become a Mentor.
For love goes on and on
and therein lies the magic.
