Another year older
but nothing else has changed.
I'm still sitting in my room alone
and stuck in this meloncholy mood.
This day, the anniversary of my birth,
this so-called time of celebration
has been just miserable.
Nothing turned out how I hoped;
every gift proved more trouble
than it was worth.
Let me just close my eyes
and sleep through the rest of
this horrible day.
I can't say I can relate to
I can't say I can relate to this, and am really grateful of that, but in my 30s I do remember feeling a couple of birthdays where I took some action to 'light a fire under my but' so to speak! Something about the thirties that really brings on the pressure to stop dilly dallying around according to most people I know. Hope you find something worthwhile in the coming years. ~much metta~
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...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "