Examine life. Forget the grade
forget the promises you’ve made
to study useful things, and hear
the distant voices, whispered clear
a moment now, before they fade.
There’s time, later, to learn a trade.
Be like those wanderers who strayed
away from roads others revere:
examine life.
And listen to the serenade
that other, wiser heads forbade:
seek out the unexplored frontier
before the time can disappear
then, looking back, now unafraid
examine life.