Birthdays are a given,

They began when we were born.

You celebrate them every year,

With birthday cakes, and horns.

You wish they didn’t come around

As fast as they seem to,

because each year it happens,

It adds another year on you.

When you are young, you cannot wait

For birthday time to come,

You cannot wait for years to pass

’Til you are 21.

Before you know the years go by,

And you are growing old.

You can’t go back, you have to face

Whatever the future holds.

We are advised to eat right, sleep well,

And exercise each day.

Well, that sounds funny to me,

Because I did all that,

And got old anyway!

Shirley Binkley

Cedar View Apartments

shirleybentzbinkley@gmail.com