All the preparation you've done will finally pay off.

All the books that we would have loved,

All the homework that never really got done,

All the papers that could have been better,

All the hours that could be spent elsewhere,

All the laughs that marked everyday,

All the games that we loved to play,

All the times that we won't remember,

All the friends and enemies,

All the teachers of all the classes,

All the days that turned into nights,

All the first and last days,

All the tests that were prayed over,

All the people that we didn't really know,

All the choices that we live through,

All the fun we let ourselves have,

All the chances that seemed small,

All the times we lost our voices yelling,

All the little joys we found,

All the realizations we'd like to forget,

All the times we had to be a grown up,

All the seconds that formed leaders,

All the seconds that formed failures,

All the seconds that formed futures,

Are all just memories now,

All just part of the times before,

All part of the life before graduation,

All part of the preparation.