I've really put off discussing what I was feeling leading up to yesterday. I just finished up my sophomore year at Kenyon College and so I still have a couple years left to take in what college has to offer. But, the end of this school year meant that some of my best friends and the best people I've ever met are moving onto the next part of their lives. I'm extremely happy and excited for all they are going to do, it's just tough not to join them. Without many of them, my college experience would be lacking many of the things I value the most today. Over these last few weeks we all did a relatively good job of not breaking out into tears (except for a couple times) and I have to say I thought I'd made it out alright until I was walking home after midnight yesterday morning. I had spent most of the night hanging out with some of the seniors and it began to hit me as I walked by Gund Commons. I ended up sitting at the tables outside for a bit. When the tears started coming I started writing and wrote this poem. You can call it a coping poem, a realization poem, or whatever.
To me this is my thank you to the members of the Class of 2018 for all they've done for me Congratulations and I wish you luck as you go forward. Tomorrow Why does yesterday feel like today feel like four years ago feel like the first time you knew your mother loved you? Why does tomorrow feel so unknown feel so uncertain feel so empty? I want to grip onto yesterday and pull back these four years until they are all tomorrow again. They are not tomorrow. They are gone, have gone from now to memory for you to hold as you step into tomorrow. Run into tomorrow, carefully, but still run. Why does yesterday feel like today feel like four years ago feel like the first time you knew your mother loved you? Because tomorrow is unknown is uncertain is empty and you will need all of your life to carry you through it. You will have all your life all your yesterdays all of your last four years all of your mother’s love in tomorrow. We miss the things we had yesterday once we lack them. I will miss you, but I will hold onto our yesterdays and we will carry them with us through Tomorrow
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