GRADUATION

'My Homemade Graduation Gown'  by  Trish

It's my graduation day, an award, I'll bestow on myself.

I'll frame the certificate I give me, and place it on a shelf.

I'll celebrate for a week, with friends and strangers too,

If you're interested in an award, I'll  gladly create one, for  you.

I've read, 'the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet',
I've repeated those words often, to almost everyone I'd meet.
Some folk didn't care to hear it, and thought me quite absurd,
It didn't stop me from saying it, there's power in the word!

One day I was enthusing, holding forth about education,
I heard myself for the first time, heard my love and devotion,
For learning, in all its forms, through, touch, sight and more,,
Why shouldn't I recognize me, myself, for something I adore.

Tushie