February 24, 2007

Party

So how’s it been?
This life of yours?
Has it been happy?
And all you ever wanted?

Because on this day
it seems reversed,
and kinda upside down.
Because we three
cannot help but feel
that on this day
it is we who have received the birthday gift.
That we get to have
the cake and the games
and all the joy and celebration.
Why does today, your day,
really feel like ours?
It's because we have you.
Because we have you.
Because we have you.

It does seems strange
to say that your day
is really ours.
A party that began
three different times.
A party
we haven’t stopped celebrating
since the day we each,
we three,
first held you.

--Birthday, 2006