Baratta.net Stories

Thoughts of you race through my mind,
     causing emotional waves.
I ride the swells of lonely kind,
and search the shore for caves.
But tossed about my thoughts do tumble,
     and cling to the raft I must.

Author's Note: I was one of four finalists to give the Student Commencement Address for my graduating class at UC Davis. With a time limit of 2 minutes, I decided to gamble and write the speech as a poem. I lost out to a guy that equated college to a buffet. I still think my poem was way better than his overused cliche - he's probably a motivational speaker now. :-)

I am brought here to you today
to talk to you, in my own way.
With, as you can hear, in meter and verse,
so sit back and enjoy, it could be much worse.