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The Dream Sketcher Signs off For the Last Time.

Claude Robert Hill, IV

"Winters, Springs, Summers and Falls

measured in countless trimesters.

Friendships and challenges sometimes indistinguishable in its infinite natures.

And loss is the constant that all things share in common.

And so, through my imaginings; I come again to the bench in front of the

pond near the Center of Performing Arts.

I can feel the sun rays tickling my light brown skin, as on prior occasions.

I can see past versions of me and others who are no longer here taking

delightful strolls around the pond and the school itself.

 I feel intense sadness and its duality happiness

 at the same time, as my tears begin to roll down from my eyes to my chin.

All I have at this very moment are my fleeting memories from 22 years of

being associated, with various student medias at Governors State University.

All my photography, higher education and political columns, short stories and

poetry will live on in the literary forests of  the defunct GSU student

newspaper, The innovator;

The Phoenix Student Newspaper

and now the Reconstructed: Literary and Visual Journal.

It has been a great ride to contribute to these amazing media platforms.

From my debut poem entitled, ‘The Legend of Madam Kitchenburg’,

which was featured April 9, 1999 in ‘The Innovator’

to my last poem called, ‘A Father’s Dreams Disguised As You’ featured in the

2020 Reconstructed Journal.’

Can you believe that time has gotten away from me?

The sun is setting right now in front of me,

as I sip on the goodbye of these treasured memories.

My literary legacy at Governors State University will live on in print and

digital form,

until other forms of media are invented to give my literary works new life.

It has been an HONOR to have been published with so many talented students

and my fellow alumni.

This is the ‘Dream Sketcher’ signing off for the last time.

Goodbye and thank you for my poetic dawn."

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