Birthday

My birth date, occasion for joy, hope for the future,

My birth date, unemployed, financially broke, hating life,

My birth date, lessons of a year, the past has claimed another,

My birth date, love has not come, it being the gift of gifts,

My birth date, the journey’s beginning or continuance or end, who is to say,

My birth date, of all I have not, I have the most important things, me and thee.