As You Graduate

Be inspired to walk out from this place
Have dreams and goals; aspire
Live passionately, work hard and
Enjoy your time; don’t tire

Don’t tire of learning; finding out
Enquiring; seeking more
Observe and listen; look and see
All openings galore

See openings with honest heart
Teach. Share ideas. Rejoice
Encourage others; empathise
Enthuse with hearty voice

Enthuse and entertain but too
Interrogate your ways
With intellectual rigour do
Examine them each day

Examine them and then define
Yourself by what you love
Remembering to give thanks too
With gratitude thereof

With gratitude and heartfelt thanks
Give each respect and worth
Upholding and preserving good
Enhancing life on Earth

Enhancing life with small small steps
Your footprint; legacy
Seek knowledge; wisdom; humbleness
In life post BSc

One Day

I know one day I’ll surely die
I’ll draw my last long breath
I’ll close my eyes and let my soul
Be consumed by my death

And at that time I pray I’ll know
That life has really been
The best adventure here on earth
Lived fully – ever keen

I pray that I’ll have soared the skies
Have walked the highest range
Swam in the deepest ocean blue
Have welcomed, embraced change

I pray I’ll have just lived a life
The best one that I can
With love and laughter radiantly
Since when my days begun

Caught hold of inspiration bright
Kissed wonders to behold
Danced with great happiness and hope
With truth my life unfold

And in that last breath tentatively
I’ll pray that you’ll know still
That I have loved you from your first
Deep breath and always will.