I Want to Make It to My Graduation

Music: Fugue in C# Minor. By  Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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I want to make it to my graduation Even though I haven't long to live. I want that one last hard-earned celebration To give me all the joy that it can give. I want your pride around me like a song, To walk within its passion and its beauty, To feel its pleasure in me sweet and strong, To be possessed of all of those who love me. And then I want the lazy afterglow, The long, slow chatter of the waning day, The easy confidence of those who know That something precious has been put away. Death's a dawn in that its golden light Reveals the loveliness long hid by night.