Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

June 19, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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A graduation poem anticipating memories:

Free at last! Our childhood is over!

Now we can look back with tearful eyes

And see ourselves through sentimental lies,

As though these were for us the best years ever.

Perhaps they were, but we won't know till later,

When we have seen the landscapes of our lives,

And known the love of husbands or of wives,

And tasted of our fortunes, sweet or bitter.

For now, we're simply happy to move on

Yet sad for all that we must leave behind,

Celebrating as we say farewell.

Days and years flow swiftly through the mind,

Lingering long after they are gone

As tales we cannot help but oft retell.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

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