A car, cannot buy itself

An application, cannot write itself

A scholarship, cannot apply itself

A future, cannot realize itself

A student, passing through school

A citizen, passing through work

A man, passing through life

A man, passing through time 

A son, moving out

A brother, shaking hands

A grandson, waving again 

A father, guiding thy hand 

A pencil, here in my fingers

A paper, laying at my arm

A desk, holding my things

And a classroom, there forever