Your Birthday Card
You left this world twenty-four years ago.
I watched in horror your burned departure-
A lasting lump weighted with all my tears.
Today memory looms a misty blur.
Surely years defy illusions casting
Away such lumps that quicken all my tears.
Yet-anniversaries-death days, birthdays,
Memories keep calling me all these years.
Years pile upon my heart with heartlessness.
Another year put away with such waste
Of life, so young, breathing eternity
Leaving mom with poems, shoes and faded taste.
A taste of music, a tenor, a guitar,
A lark free and singing without his cage.
One year, two years, ten years, twenty years
Gone, but I've never counted all my rage.
Another year, and you would be fifty-
Another birthday-these embers never die-
I'll fuel them with a party and my card
To burn my love into the waiting sky.
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