Happy 56th

Welcome all Happy Birthday members and anyone who should find this poem.

"One cannot really enjoy speed to the absolute limit if there's a destination involved."

StirlingMoss

Happy 56th

5, 6
pick up sticks
and anything else
you can get whilst
bent toward the floor

Inside we're still
twenty five or six
time seems not
to have flown
until we're down
and can't get up

Just remember lover
I'm right there with ya
Maybe one of us
should call 911
before we're stuck
and can't reach the phone

Thanks for scoping
out this old age thing
for me so I know all
the pitfalls and peaks
the aches and the creaks
the joy of telling a joke
before you are one

Happy birthday you ol' coot
hope you like the gifts and loot

© Sue Barton 2007

This is written on the occasion of The Househusband's 56^th Birthday. If you enjoyed this poem, you might like to read some more. To see a complete listing of the poems I have posted on Gather, follow this link.