Happy Birthday to You!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU MY DEAREST FRIEND

God gave a gift to the world when you were born—
A person who loves, who cares,
Who sees a person’s need and fills it,
Who encourages and lifts people up,
Someone who touches each life she enters,
and makes a difference in the world,
Because you are a special treasure
for all that you’ve done.
May the love you have shown to others
return to you, multiplied.
I wish you the happiest of birthdays,
And many, many more
On your birthday, I want to say
Something you don’t want from me.
Things didn’t go so well when I last said it,
And so I’ll keep it silent in my heart.
But how the words reverberate within me!
A song that I must struggle not to sing,
A music I must dance to without motion,
A poem that I must never read aloud.
Your wishes are a wall I would not scale,
Yet won’t abandon, loathe to leave behind.
I cannot have, and cannot bear to lose you,
And so I send you this in my despair.
Happy birthday my dear!
A song of joy for you!
Perhaps these words will touch the heart.