so yeah pardon my finals nerves that have been all over the forum for the past weeks, they will hopefully cease soon.
No worries at all! Good luck!
Of Norwegians and their customs
no one knows less than this poet,
whose ancestral German forebears
were not really even German
(how they got there is confusing).
Nonetheless, all people study,
be they Nordic or Moroccan
or from Chile or Lesotho,
be they Chinese, Sikh, or Jewish,
or some happy combination.
Under silver stars uncaring
do we all burn midnight candles
from both ends down to the middle
in a universal process
that goes back a hundred decades.
Use you flash cards? Or some wiki?
Or a meditative practice
learned from ancient Sanskrit textbooks
or perhaps from modern teachers
at the yoga place downtown?
All that ever really matters
is that you went in with courage,
like a brave and stalwart hero
facing dragons without coffee
or some other awful concept.
Get some rest, let dawn awake you,
let you heed no fear or terror.
Study calmly in the moments
left before your final testing.
Let it all pass right on through you.
Come next day you still will be you
and your future lain before you
stretching out to far horizons
irrespective of your grading
and the stars will look down laughing.
