Birthday

[addy]

I did not expecting the path this poem took... lovely progression. Perhaps when I'm older with kids of my own, I can appreciate it further. It has a levity, but also a gravitas, and is certainly not overwrought even as it reaches the end. I hear what paddygirl's hearing, there's a certain "drop" in the flow at the "... mere gift tokens" point. Despite that, i think it's a good ending