Zachery Ray Slinkard
The Happiness I Feel at Your Achievements
The happiness I feel at your achievementsReflects the happiness you feel at mine.Friends expand the pleasures of such moments,As mine in yours, and yours in mine, combine.The same when we look forward to our futures:So much more unfolds when there are two!Populating your proposed adventuresGives me a joy that mine must give to you.We've been through much, and will be through much more,But traveling together is more fun.Whatever life and love may have in store,Two is always preferable to one.Your graduation thus becomes my pleasure:Your happiness is mine, a double treasure.
~ Nicholas Gordon