"Ode to Becky"

This is the only poem where I will mention a particular person. At the end of my freshman year, I was taking an intersession course (class after the school year was over). I bumped into her on graduation day. The words were not hers, they were my interpretation based on what she said.

On a somewhat amusing note, the one year I taught literature, I had my students read this poem. The sixth grade interpreted this as an analogy for death. I get it, but was amused that they took one straightforward poem and complicated it.

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They leave as quickly as they came
this is their big day, their day
many are happy, but one is sad...

Why o why are you looking
so sad and downcast?
Why o why are you looking
like someone has died?

I am leaving, I have to go
I don't want to go, I want to stay
But, I must abandon you, I must run away
And for this I am sad

Oh oh, you will never abandon us,
you will always be here with us
and we with you, you will never leave

Always and forever more will you
be with us in heart and mind
for as long as we live we shall never part

They leave as quickly as they came,
this is their big day, their day
all leave happy...