0.1 Percentile

The experience of hair raising

Eyes couldn’t behold what was seen

Jaw dropped in shock

Mouth agape in disbelief

Cheeks flushed in red

Neck took the strain

Shoulders drooped in low esteem

Heart upped the beat in tension

Butterflies in the stomach

Sweating in the palm

With wobbly legs

The child presented 

Her report card

With trembling hands.

She got 99.9 percentile

All that fuss for the 

Missing 0.1 percentile

Her father smiled

Both mother and daughter

Looked at each other in relief.