On Endings

We like to think of June as graduation month, but for college students those graduations can also happen in January.

One of my students summed it up this way: "I AM DONE WITH COLLEGE, YAAAY!!

I offered him the following, and I reprint it for those who are indeed graduating this month or who are wishing that they would be.

The author wrote finis at last
Relieved to place all in the past.
Faced forward to the beckoning dawn,
No backward glance, and he was gone.

Yet hearken son, for one time more-
Disparage not what came before.
There'll come a time, as you will see,
You'll yearn for what's now memory
And learn the truth of reality--
That life's a multi-stranded tapestry,
With all threads a necessity
In the weaver's recipe.

So forward go, begin to travel,
But let not older threads unravel.
There's much of value left behind,
Let your thoughts of the past be kind.
Wind those threads throughout your heart,
For of who you are they are a part.