Birthday Wishes

Happy Happy Birthday!
Midnight has finally come.
Happy Happy Birthday!
At last you are twenty-one.

May all your worries leave,
and your sorrow pass away.
I pray you joy and peace,
even from a place faraway.

Happy Happy Birthday!
May all your wishes come true.
Happy Happy Birthday!
And all that is good finds you.

- GS

Happy Birthday to Katherine =)

Theme: Death

Birth and burial

Life began from the ground,
the seed of Adam, fruit of Eve.
Planted with water in the garden,
and birth brought fourth sons.

Life begets joy and sorrow,
two sides of a coin, bittersweet.
Both grew in equal measures,
as growth begot growth.

Life believes in the ending,
a burial ground, a final breath.
Some calls it death and decay,
For others, it's life anew.

- GS


Death at the Door

Death knocks at the door of this one,
he recognizes not the time of his leaving,
opened the door out of curiosity,
was snatched away and seen no more.

Death knocks at the door of another,
this time she has expected his coming,
she greeted him like an old friend,
he took her by the hand to a land faraway.

Death knocks at the door once again,
his hand dry and old and pale as snow,
but know that if he greets at the door,
there is no time left to regret anymore.

- GS

I Found Success

I found success
he was hiding in a bottle,
waiting to be released.

He was taking a day off
in a beach at Hawaii.
He was running forty-two,
while I slept till two.

He was watching me go by
as I pass him yesterday.
He was never far from me,
I just never found him.

He was in a box of old stuff
that I never bothered.
He was whispering to me,
but I never listened.

He was in my father's words
even as he passed away.
He was lost to me for years,
and I found it within me.

I found success
he has always been there,
waiting for me to find him.

- GS

"Be sure that success is in your heart before it is in your hands, lest you loose your grip and your heart don't care."