Higher Still Desires

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His graduation goes still higher, his height

Increased by dance with mortarboard of black

Flung high.  From earth of foreign land his flight

Soars higher.  He has fought off life’s attack,

Attacks, attacks.  The dark gray clouds above

Are now attacked by him.  He dances joy.

With hat and robe and dance shoe he will shove

Life’s weight away and make life’s trials a toy

For him to play with.  He will be a cloud

Of fire with Indian skin and eyes.

His beauty will be proved, his parents proud.

He now is soaring to his fated skies.

  His soaring will keep soaring as he wings

    Above his past.  His loving lover sings.