Sunday, May 9, 2021

Poem: For your birthday

For your birthday
I have saved a poem.
A piece on
Children of my youth still children.
For your birthday
I will ask the stars
To read and sleep and sing and burn.
For your birthday
I will take all care
to be a father
younger than you,
to be a giver
wiser than you,
to be a feeling
(nothing more)
stronger than you
that you may hold
and one day,
on your birthday,
Like a star, unfold.

        Jason Wesley Anderson

 

 

 

 

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