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'The Graduation Day!', written by Lawrence S Pertillar, is an excellent elucidation of graduation day, in life of graduates. Some positive changes are expected when a person graduates from some college. He is expected to forget all bitterness that surrounded his world and involve himself in a creative world, conducive to peace and harmony. This poem has been written in free verses and exemplifies a graduate as a role model. The poet asks all graduates not to find faults in others, rather try to become someone who is always there to put positive inputs in the development of a better tomorrow. This graduation day poem acquaints graduates with their obligation to the world.
The Graduation Day!
The moment it is realized,
A chip long carried on your shoulder
Has been dissolved...
A graduation has occurred.
And you have moved on.
It has dawned on you,
Bitterness that you knew...
Has gone!
It's graduation day!
And knowing you belong among
Those who can truthfully say they can forgive.
Is a blessing to have lived to learn,
That lesson!
So many have failed and given up.
They are the ones heard stuck...
Finding fault with everything.
And nothing within them is felt to give!
Those are the ones who live life,
Being right without insight!
And on the tips of their tongues,
Is a complaint about something or someone.
And what who did and how it was done...
To them.
They want the attention,
Although they don't listen!
And...
At some point in time,
Minds they have are left behind!
In affairs misunderstood with blame to claim.
In affairs misunderstood with blame to claim.
