Graduation quote or poem help?

Question

Please help me find a good graduation poem or quote to put in my announcement. I already have the part that says my name and time I graduate, etc. All the poems I have found so far say stuff like your dreams, your success, etc. and I need something that says I or my, like first person perspective, because it is my graduation (from high school). I hope you understand this, it is kind of jumbled, sorry.

Answer 1

hmm...

"This is the tomorrow we dreamed about yesterday"

not sure if that's what you want? or

"This is only the beginning for everything never ends"

just some thoughts

Answer 2

Here are three poems that are quite nice. You could excerpt any phrase or phrases that suit your situation, as well. You made no mention of length but did say poem. These are written by Nicholas Gordon. The first line of the poem is the title, also. Congratulations and good luck!

Graduation's on a mountaintop.

Rarely does one get a better view.

All that is in front of me is new.

Dreams fade into haze rather than stop.

Underneath are queasiness and fear

As familiar landscapes fall away.

The price of moving on is just that gray

Intensity that grips as new eyes near.

On me for just this moment all is grace:

Now I rest, and that sweet joy embrace.

                                *

Graduations are like stepping through

A veil into another, larger room.

Behind, where we can never go again,

Are memories like a shipwreck full of gold.

Strange, the harmonies of pride and sadness,

The dawn and sunset of the new and old,

The bittersweet good-byes while looking forward

To things unseen beyond the ridge of time.

Numb with too much life we stagger through them,

Time passing in the ordinary way.

Relatives and friends all swarm around us,

Buzzing round the silence of the real.

And once the ceremonies and the parties

Are over, and the sweet days come and go,

All we've lost comes back to us as music

Of love departed, never to return.

                             *

Graduations can be bittersweet,

Reminding us of all that's come and gone:

All our battles, whether lost or won,

Days of bliss, and days we would delete.

Underneath our pride there is the sense,

Almost like a wound, of something past,

The beauty of a time that cannot last,

In which we shared the joys of innocence.

Open vistas lie before our eyes;

Now is the time for hopes and for goodbyes