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My Brother's 50th Birthday

by Susan in Las Vegas

 

Shopping for a birthday card

Concentrating really hard

 

The kind I would prefer to send

Is funny big and doesn’t bend

 

Got mad because again I saw

Dumb cards I wouldn’t send my paw,

 

Why hasn’t Halmark figured out

Our aging’s not a time to pout

 

Its still a time to celebrate!

My gosh, another year! Its GREAT!

 

Its starting once more all brand new

-a car who’s mileage made it to

 

Zeros all across the row,

And POOF! We have a new car! So,

 

Although that one did not hold true

Med journals tell us all, we have new

 

Hope for living far more years

Another half life! So open your ears

 

No cancer by the age of five o,

Says Living til ninety is likely, so,

 

If that’s the case, you plan your way:

Five O becomes your starting day.

 

Dig it; lucky you, you’re here.

Wow, the options!  Check your gear,

 

Another adventure’s around the bend,

You ready? All packed?  go spend

 

some time to find whats on your mind.

Be wise, be fair, be smart, be kind,

 

The past is gone, new life ahead,

Each moment smells as good as bread

 

Fresh from the oven, steaming still

With butter, mm,  these moments will

 

Add up to all new books of love

A second, a moment, the cat, or dove

 

who all together make you say

it was an awesome kind of day

 

So start your new life with a smile

And dig the joys you’ve earned a while

 

For many who make it this far they say

Will see that ninety two some day.

 

Again get off your duff don’t gripe

Your new life s here not down the pipe

 

Dig out the ‘horn, the drums, the tent

Aim for the moon or aim for ghent

 

Its great to be alive today

Go dance! Do art! Or write a play

 

Our National Parks are waiting there,

For you to camp and hike and share

 

Or follow trails of those you knew

Who made today so great for you

 

In parks, the air, on lakes, on shore

on tapes, C D’s, and even more

 

the internet will help you find

what ever that your searching mind

 

is asking you to follow through on

so ignore the silly moron

 

who still insists that over thirty

is history, is old, and dirty

 

Instead remember and get on

Old dreams were made to look upon

 

And one day figure out to pray

Will help you get them any day

 

What was the dream you had one day

To fish and call it work not play

 

Or maybe what your new dream now

Is figuring the simple how

 

To lie in bed all day and read

Your favorite comic books? In deed

 

 

Its not too hard to really make

Your birthday happy, not some fake

 

So much to count as all success

Just try to count them: can you guess

 

How many things will constitute

Your wealth? I bet you cant compute

 

How much you have to thank God for.

I started a list: just thee or four

 

I thought I'd write but look and see

the ones my fingertips could key

 

all things you could be grateful for.

My list kept growing, more and more,

 

 

Your health, your mind, your happy heart

The way you always do your part,

 

Your friends, your golf, your awesome trees,

Alone could have you on your knees

 

Your job, your bank account, your car

Or try one day to walk as far

 

As your car goes although its aged

You’ve got a history, you waged

 

A bet that it would carry you

To work, to church, to golf, to where you

 

Find yourself at either age

Just loving life, you turn the page,

 

And all before you is brand new

There’s not much that you cannot do

 

If God be for you all is well

So sing that song and ring the bell

 

 

 You’ve got it made, so hug her cat

Your sons, and Diesel, you’re where its at;

 

 

My dogs are anxious, once again

I think how fortunate I’ve been,

 

To have a brother just like you,

you drive me nuts, but then, like you,

 

God made you perfect, that I see,

In some ways, you're a lot like me,

 

Your traits I like the most I guess

will have to wait, because I've made this pretty mess.

 

You are my brother and although

We sometimes clash, you have to know

 

I love you. Hope your heart will ring

The joys that being fifty bring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And so although its getting there late

Your Sister loves you and you rate.