Happy Birthday

It was your birthday.
The day everyone who knows you
Remembered you.
The one day every phone call
Would ring with love for you.
That special day when I wasn’t there.

It seems tragic but it really isn’t
Because I see myself next to you.
Whether you’re at a café, a club
Or simply at home.
I reach across the vast insurmountable
Distance and brush that careless speck
Off your shoulders.
I clap hard and look on with shining eyes
As you smile so full of joy at being
The Star.
I hear your voice echo with absolute, divine
Bliss regardless of the words you speak.
And I see you smile back at me,
As I hug you ever so fiercely.






Considering the number of people I know celebrating their birthdays this time of year, I thought this poem was especially apt. =)