Okay...I see your point...and since that convocation was for them..and not for us. Hey...that is great.
BUT...I did NOT like her “poem”.
I liked the one YOU posted by Omar Khayyam though..thank you.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. All art is subjective. Her enthusiasm, delivery, and feeling transcended the words. The students had just experienced a major trauma 24 hours before. They needed to leave that auditorium believing in the future and not dwell on the past. Stop being a victim and wallowing in self-pity. Accept the past and go on. That was the message and the audience obviously understood it.