GRADUATION!

1944

 

Graduation Day is coming!
Graduation's almost here!
Oh, how fast the time is passing
Since we've reached our final year!

Graduation! . . . Graduation!
Oh, what magic in the word!
And the joy of our diplomas . . .
To the depths our hearts are stirred!

To this day we've long looked forward . . .
Twelve long years it's been our goal!
Now it's here . . . but our steps falter
As we pause to search our soul.

What is in the years before us?
Shall we scatter far and wide?
Even so . . . we will remember
All our schoolmates, we confide.

And if one, on Life's long journey,
Fame or fortune should be due,
We would also be delighted
Just to say, "I knew him, too."

All these years we've been together
Making fast the ties that bind
'Round the package of our schooldays
That we now must leave behind.

Sad the bell rings this last morning
As the schoolhouse we draw near . . .
Now to put away our schoolbooks . . .
Say farewell to friends so dear.

Down the hall our footsteps slowing . . .
Knowing soon we'll tread them last . . .
Step outside to face the Future . . .
Knowing that our childhood's past.

 

Fayma Caraway Johns
AHS 1944

 

 

World of Poetry
Honorable Mention
April 21, 1988

 

40^thREUNION: 1984

 

Forty years 'til next we gathered
As the Class of '44 --
Strangers but for mem'ries stirring
As we talked of days of yore.

 

Most were present, all were living
But for one who'd been long gone,
Missing more than thirty years now
And his fate was still unknown.

 

Such a time of sweet reunion
As we reminisced that night
Of the good times and the sad times --
Forty years of Time's swift flight.

 

 

Fayma Caraway Johns
AHS 1944

50^thREUNION: 1994

 

Fifty years since graduation
And we meet again once more
For the "golden" celebration
Of the Class of '44.

Mem'ries shared of five who've answered
"Roll Call" of eternity
Bring a moment of reflection:
"Why them, Lord, instead of me?"

Grateful now for all our teachers,
Some still with us, some now gone,
For their dedicated efforts
To teach us to carry on.

We've been blessed to come together
And, though we may meet no more,
We are proud to be a member
Of the Class of '44.

 

Fayma Caraway Johns
AHS 1944
© 1994

 

 

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