Another blown candle ends another year, <br />Which brings friends and family happiness and also a cheer, <br />Reminiscing and celebrations, with memories and congratulations; <br />With grins and smiles, but it still brings a single tear; <br />It is your birthday and you aged another year. <br /> <br />Happy birthday they announce to you as they all shout <br />But, do you want to celebrate it? That I highly doubt, <br />It has been another year of aches and pain, and losses and gain, <br />You would rather be alone just to forget and pout; <br />You wished they forgot your birthday, or just had left you out. <br /> <br />The child excitedly waits for their birthday to arrive, <br />But, you don't care for birthdays at all, all you want is to survive, <br />You know it's just another bell chime, listened by father time, <br />Some are excited to get older, you are just happy to be alive; <br />Birthdays will come, and cake and card makers will always thrive. <br /> <br />Birthdays you believe are meant only for the child <br />When they can run and shout and sing and also go wild, <br />Happy songs are always sung, it's truly just for the young, <br />When the child receives their presents, they all are beguiled; <br />Birthdays for me and other adults; I am just reviled. <br /> <br />Another year older is all that a birthday represents <br />With cake and ice-cream for children and games and plenty of presents, <br />A child impatiently waits to be an adult, I see that as youth's insult; <br />But, that is my own belief when I add my dollar and cents; <br />Birthdays in reality are just nature's and business's calculated events. <br /> <br />Randy L. McClave<br /><br />Randy McClave<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/another-birthday-2/
