There Is No Future Good Enough

May 13, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is about college as an idealistic time before one must make compromises with life.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is no future good enough

For what we hope to be,

Nor world with windows wide enough

For what we hope to see.

Yet when we turn to compromise

The dreams with which we wake,

We'll glimpse behind a memory

Which we cannot forsake.

How beautiful this time of youth

That is so quickly gone!

We came to learn together, and

In moments we are done.

How long we will remember this

Brief time when life would wait

Upon the true perception that

Comes always far too late.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/there5.html. For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation.

May 9: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 10: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

May 11: To the Graduate Who Makes Me Smile

May 12: Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 13: There Is No Future Good Enough