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(Not So) Happy Birthday

March 15, 2014
By Sydney Morrison BRONZE, Monticello, Illinois
Sydney Morrison BRONZE, Monticello, Illinois
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There is something horribly sad
about birthdays

Another year leaving your fingertips
the turning of a page

Candles blowing out a year
Only wisps of smoke left like memories
of what the year had been

It should be happy
it is in the phrase after all

Piles of ribbon, wrapping paper, and excitement
Cake with colorful, hardened globs of wax dotting
the creaminess of the frosting

So why do you feel such dread?

I think it’s a mask
exuberance for ignorance
of another age come and gone



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