When school yearbooks are thrust forth to be signed,
We give out life advice. We speak our mind,
And charge our classmates to keep some small vow:
“Recall our good times!” “Stay as you are now!”
As Christ did with his Great Commission bind
His church to teach and baptize all mankind,
So do the yearbook’s Small Commissions urge
Obedience to some much less solemn charge.
If we look back to that glad time remote,
Shall we have held to what our friends then wrote?
Were Small Commissions in our hearts enshrined?
Or were their words forgotten over time?
Well, one of these at least I’ve kept so far:
“Dear Paul, please stay as crazy as you are!”
