Commencement

Let us love — rather than correctly —
 let us love well
Rather than encourage loving less
 encourage learning how

They say experience and self–control
 both are rather new
well, ever since they burned the witch with her broom
 and cooked the medicine–woman in her stew

Let us refrain from punishing
 groping in the dark
and be glad we are embracing
 our desire for the art

Let us be enraged at doing poorly
 and lack of practicing
Let us show them how it’s done
 with discretionary loving