The Commencement is the Beginning

Commencement speeches

Ought to resound in

The mind. They ought to

Revere the greatness

That the students reached.

Like songbirds chirping

New notes, the address

Should rise and sing the

Splendor of moving

Forward in life. Tales

Of overcoming

Adversity are

Prevalent. Let that

Not be the rite of

Passage but a fact

Of reality.

All of the hurdles,

That students faced and

Surpassed, are not the

Key. It is the act

Of facing them that

Counts, and their power

To defeat them all.

Individuals

Should remember that

The commencement is

The beginning. Roads

Unpaved will rise up

To meet them. And with

The same amount of

The tenacity

That brought them to their

Day of victory

In life, let that bring

Them through the ages.