Ending the Beginning
They started out small, 11 founders and 4 walls. Their dreams and visions so tall and now we’re ending the beginning.
They had fears and shed blood sweat and tears. They never quit not because they had no doubts, but because there was no time to pout or cry because the dream could not die. In this I tell no lies cause we’re ending the beginning.
They had different stories to tell, but a single beautiful future together they held. From the first stone laid to the road of destiny paved they dreamed of a day when we could end the beginning.
But don’t forget that this is just the beginning. The completion of our amazing capacity is still pending, but it waits not on them or big corporate men, or even time itself. But like a can on a shelf we were chosen and we mustn’t stand frozen because I swear we’ve been chosen to end the beginning.
As this chapter ends and another begins shed no tears and stand up to your fears because we’re not only peers but siblings, and as a family we must shake of the dust and in our robust youth take a stand as leaders of our generation with a plan to end the beginning.
There will be no relenting because we are inventing no forging the future. That in spite of the scariness of what our future holds as the next generation we must be bold. We are world changers, chain breakers, and chance takers. We are and forever will be known to the generations to come, at the dying of the sun as the generation that was the End of the Beginning.
—Isis Toldson
I was asked to recite a Maya Angelou poem, but had to write one instead because I hadn't memorized it fully. It's pretty short, but I had to write it in 30 minutes.
