Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl

How many years have come and gone

To bring you to my dreams

You fill my days with luscious thoughts

Pray, tell me what this means

I must admit, it was your smile

That reached to say “hello”

A picture worth a thousand words

That warmed my spirit so

We do not choose those ones we crave

Whose loveliness we see

That look that makes one turn their head

You gave one, then, to me

Our future’s fogged in mystery

We know not when or where

I only know one day ahead

You’ll stand before me there

This day now, many years ago

Love waited on your birth

The promise of nine months of days

Anticipated worth

They longed to see you...hear your voice

To feel your soft caress

To swaddle you in endless love

To see your body blessed

With all of these I empathize

I share their eager view

Consummate yearning fills me full

Anticipating you

The promises you made them then

You keep those even yet

You love them all as they loved you

Forever in Love’s debt

Your birthday’s here…another year

Of beauty, wisdom, grace

To celebrate with you, await

Long lingering embrace

I’ll give my gift when face-to-face

I’ll whisper in your ear

The gentlest, truest thoughts of praise

As eagerly you hear

What gift to share our mysteries

Explore them all o’er time

Until I hold you in my arms

I’ll love you with my rhyme…

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“Pray bow to her, yon twinkling night

Pay homage, sun and moon

A greater warmth than in her smile

You won't be sensing soon”

“Embrace her heart…celestial light

Through midnight window streams

Lave blessing on this Birthday Girl

This angel of my dreams”

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