high school graduation
coming back to town from
the
job that I'd already
started
(summer
camp lifeguard
isn't that
the dream)
we walked in the ceremony
moving tassels from one side
to the other
after awkwardly shaking hands
with
the principal
the superintendent
maybe a coach?
(it was texas, after all)
and then we left in our cars
up and down the main street
stopping here and there
houses,
parks, stores
somehow I recognized at the time, that the
freedom from adulthood, coupled with a
responsibility to nothing but learning
born by us middle class high
school students
was a vanishing gift
which we hadn’t fully appreciated
in the morning I left … again
off to new life at camp,
new life at college
***
now I see it from another side
and I hope her memories are good
her foundation is
solid
her future is full of new life
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