This Day
(July 94)
You've seen this day before, it comes but once a year.
Brutalized by the levity of friends, yet, it is still your
special day, as well it should; time is an enigma that
can build a city or destroy a nation; that can seed a
field of flowers or flood a forest; that can stand a person
up right and make them proud or break them until the
soul cries and hope becomes a stranger; and so that you
know, within all of this, time has been your good friend.
Time has taken all the best of what you were and molded
it into what you have become.

The light that embraces you, from what may seem at times
the shadows, is your fortune and goodwill; it is your good
nature on which, everything and everyone, you bestow; it is
your understanding that without, your friends would be
intolerable; it is your beauty and kind way that of all things
exemplifies your spirit and physical being; that I have found
you is a blessing, that I may know you gives me gladness, that
I may love you gives me all that matters in this world or the next.