My Birthday

Birthdays give a different feeling as we get older.

Why celebrate my birthday?

Is it for presents that we say

come to my party and we’ll play,

and celebrate that painful day?

 

When from peaceful warmth I popped,

life giving fluid from me was sopped,

life giving cord from me was lopped,

even my penis tip was chopped!

 

Could it be for recognition

of our lives improved condition

to compare last year’s edition

of the story that’s being written?

 

Could it be it’s just a habit?

A place for us to take a stab at

denying our true age and blab that

we’re not ready for the slab yet?

 

Could it be a joke that others

pull to prove that they’re our brothers

and if we really had our druthers

we’d just as soon go thank our mothers

 

I tend to think the truth is clear.

Birthdays remind us life is dear.

Death approaches with to much cheer

It’s better to just go have a beer.

Reviews

[angelinmypocket]

This is really very funny...but the sting of the awful truth is there. I don't know about your age, but at my age, birthdays come too fast. Each one just reminds me that mortality makes for a very short life. And it's too late to drown my troubles in beer...LOL.

[QuietPoet]

Whatever age you are, you should always enjoy your birthday because you were born and should be thankful and celebrate that day with your friends and family.

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HAAAAA!!!!!! You brought a BIG smile to my dreary day Ed...druthers??? What the hell does that mean? Great word!! I have never heard circumcision described so eloquently and it is just as well that boys can't recall the pain...or do they I wonder? This is light-hearted and full of frolicking good fun, what a great read, I actually laughed out loud! Having a beer is definately better than sopping your life away ticking off every birthday and waiting for the next.
I loved this...
Helen :-)

[TL Boehm]

OH KAY! the beer is on ME. This is hilarious writing, witty - strong, a great ryhme scheme - and as Barbara said, brimming with truth.

[Barbara Walker]

I cracked up when I read this! Great rhymes and flow, everyone can identify and it's full to brimming with truth! Thanks for sharing! Barbara