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# This 8-Year-Old's Poetic Letter to Beyoncé Is Everything

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by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Aug 3, 2016 6:37 PM UTC

by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Aug 3, 2016 6:37 PM UTC

A [Redditor](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4vt1uv/one%5Fof%5Fmy%5Fgirlfriends%5F8yearold%5Fsummer%5Fstudents/) has posted a brilliantly funny (and hopefully real) letter by an eight-year-old summer school student addressed to world leader [Beyoncé](http://time.com/4306316/beyonce-lemonade-black-woman-magic/).

Instructed to write to a person they admire, the student likely rifled through the nobodies in the third grade course catalog and chose to pen a letter to [the singer](http://time.com/4305896/beyonce-lemonade-jay-z/?iid=sr-link2) who [once asked](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63dea1U33g), “why did God give me my talent?” No one knows for sure, but this kid does understand Beyoncé’s uniqueness, and has produced a brilliant metaphor to illustrate the rarity of her magic.

“Dear, Beyoncé — my favorite singer,” the letter reads. “You are the best you are a rare rose in a garden of blooming flowers but your the only one who shoots out sparkle and lite up the sky. My favorite song is sorry that song be poppin I be turnt up.”

If this letter about the sparkle-shooting celebrity is legitimate, than the teacher has nothing left to give the class.

\[[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4vt1uv/one%5Fof%5Fmy%5Fgirlfriends%5F8yearold%5Fsummer%5Fstudents/)\]

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