Celebrate 
Life 
with Learning

I have not met you.
Still, I see it ̶
a small flame coming on in your eyes.

I see your courage
after the losing, after the breaking,
grown one ring wider.
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I hear your voice going out where the ocean is rough,
curiosity alive in you, your shout
bright and loud in the spray.

The exam stands before you. It is not where you are going. Only a gate.
Life is larger than the gate, more tangled, more beautiful,
farther out.
The rules will change. The field will move.

So we keep
a fire for you ̶ curiosity, something to return to all your life,
something that opens the road.

When the times turn, when technology changes, whatever age you are, live as yourself.
In your own way.

Beside your life,
we find again who we are.