Dana Hill's 2010 graduation When I first heard about this graduation speech I immediately jotted down what I was getting ready to preach And prepared in my seat a spoken word composition But not without administration permission To perform this far outside of tradition About our future endeavors and ambitions Whether you become a firefighter or an electrician Whether you become a teacher or a physician Whether you become an activist or a politician Whether you become mother or a jazz musician All you need is a little ambition To refuse to let any opposition Prevent your dreams from coming to fruition I'll start this next part off with a sublime end rhyme I wrote in my spare time Thinking back to that early high school phase Freshman year, it was never the source of any malaise Back to the girl I secretly liked, who seemed to give off beams of sunlight I would never dare talk to her, I could only simply gaze Not to sound too creepy, but I'm going off course anyway so to this let me rephrase I remember when mom dropped me off on that first day, And you know what she said to me? The same, exact, thing, she said every day. "Now go in there and pack some knowledge In that noggin, and go prepare yourself for college" "Yes, mom" as I constantly said, Hopped out only to be greeted by who's that yelling? Ohh, it's Big Ned! I walked with my two friends through the front Only to be absorbed by that 3000 strong human current It seemed everyone was an upper class giant We had no ...
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