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We Will Not Be Forgotten –
Class of 2020 Ivy Poem
We will not be forgotten
Nor our memories and loves
Our blood, sweat, and soul
That seeped into these grounds
Transforming ourselves and our surroundings.
As the ivy clings to these walls
We will always call home
Our spirits will cling together, to each other
Past, present, and future.
We will not be forgotten
For we have faced changes from the start
And again as our time ends here,
We experience change again.
A revolution not just in ourselves,
But in the world, as life as we know it
A new, uncertain beginning.
Yet as we have done before,
We will keep persisting through these winter moments,
Clinging to our memories, our connected spirits,
our combined strength
And embrace the change,
Lead the charge,
For although we are ephemeral
Our impact, our will to persist,
our altered, combined souls
Will last forever.
Twenty – one
Bagpipes
Still haunt my daydreams, at
Midnight
Never imagined a grown man
Secluded
In the bathroom, make banshee
Cries
Knowing death loomed overhead, since
Birth
The tears flow for days, months, now
Years
Our family fails to celebrate anymore, only
Mourn
The deaths that have passed and soon, buy
Graves
To dust snow mounds off in hope, I can
Not
Find you, only in my dreams you are
Standing
To speak of health, family,
Happiness
Even when nothing feels,
Okay It is.
Lily Schaub 