Val's birthday

 

Birthday

A word in your ear

as you join another year

and meet a new one

vulnerable to time.

Not a year older,

but a day older,

seems gentler that way.

And what would the word be

that flows to you from me:

uncluttered whisper,

untroubled rhyme.

From a lover

to another

constant love

and

just

another day.

kw