Oh, The Places You'll Go!

As I sat down to read tonight,
I came upon a marvelous sight.
A book so commonplace to me,
I'd seen it one, two times, or three.
I'd never read this book I saw,
but I knew it was given with grace and awe.
I saw it a hundred times at graduation,
and I read it tonight, with grand adoration.
This book told me of all the far places I might go,
and of all I might accomplish, and all I would sow.
It told me sometimes, that life would be dim,
but the remedy for that, is a high held chin.
It told me that I had better be ready for tall, tall mountains,
and that not everything in life is of a gold fountain.
I think of all my parents have done for me- and look back on my memories-
and I know if they could, they would write such a book for me.
One never might guess that a children's book would hold,
not only a fortune for life, but rhyming wisdom of gold.