Birthdays are happy happenings <br />A year from the day you are born <br />Year after year, with a cake <br />An additional candle for each year <br />You celebrate you’re the eventful day <br />The day you were born <br />And look forwards to red lettered birthdays <br />Eighteenth, coming of age, <br />Twenty First, your graduating year and <br />Entry to adulthood with a new job and pay packet <br />The year you get married, entry into family life <br />The birthday year when you, be a father <br />Thus on and so forth, you come to the seventy fifth birthday. <br />Suddenly you realize the hollowness <br />Of looking, forward towards your final destiny <br />You accept the truth, the Maker’s pre planned destiny <br />And to be positive; remove too the negativity of the end <br />You turn around and instead of looking at the end <br />You look at the life you lived <br />The quota of success and failures <br />The good health and sickness <br />Happiness and joy of living with <br />The ever present streaks of dark spots in life <br />Without happiness, which itself will have no meaning. <br /> Isn’t it wonderful looking at life from the final goal.<br /><br />Ajit Chaliha<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/birthdays-from-both-the-ends/
