The prompt from the Found Poetry Review, May 16, 2015 was to “ select words and phrases from any graduation speech and write a poem repurposing your found language.”
Celebration
sum of all knowledge
unspoken truths
the last word — not
even the point
past all the evidence,
the extravagant excesses
burnt-toast breakfasts
a handful of rice
scar tissue, questions,
rules, reserves, rage
sleeping in the shade
of your future
(Source text: Barbara Kingsolver. 2008 Commencement Address, Duke University in Durham, NC)
the raven's eye 
It reads even better here, B.
Thanks. The last couplet is gone – it threw everything off, I think.
Ah, that’s the difference. It’s a good write, B.
I can’t remember my own, and the last graduation speech I heard was when I watched a bunch of Firefighters graduate… And unfortunately the ‘guest’ speaker spoke more about himself than those graduating.
I like your verse a condensed version of perhaps what all graduation speeches should be.
Thanks for visiting ‘Who Said You Can’t Go Home Again’… I always like playing with Dorothy and Alice too.