FEATURED STUDENT POET!!!! Jasmine Norris, a graduating senior (Spring '02! Congratulations!) in the Department of English, presents the following poem as a momento of her departure:

Let Me Paint a Picture, My Love

Let me paint a picture, my love.

Our love can be described as the joy

      a mother has when she is reunited

      finally with her run-away child.

If you let me paint a picture, my love,

      it would be a lonely widow watching

      the sunset with the sweet memories

      of her late husband.

Our love can be described

      as a deep passion that burns inside

      of a wife who knows that her husband's

      ship is coming in from the war.

Our love is so strong that it is as deep

      and everlasting as a postcard of a sunset

      on the lake.

Please let me paint a picture,  my love.

If you do, you will see children running

      freely on a beach, just happy to be

      able to run, or you would see the joy

      on a husband's face when the doctor

      tells him his wife is going to live.

I would paint a thousand pictures

      because like the saying, A picture's

      worth a thousand words.

But it would take a million pictures

      to let you know how much I love you.

So, please, my love, let me paint a picture.