Its My Birthday Every Day

Its my birthday every day just because I awoke to see another day a new breath an extra hour beneath my belt, I am God's living ray Defying all odds I am still here stumping the experts with my drill dancing in the sunlight like a dervish mendicant ascetic, no pills; I remember being six and blowing out the candles on my frosty cake mamma asked me sweetly to make a wish before the first snowflake I wished to live forever so I could find the secret of a well lit firefly and summer after summer I watched them as they lit up the sky It is my birthday today, every hour succinct to the next I like it this way twirling like a wild baton in a parade I bang my drum and I sing all day A new breath an extra hour beneath my belt, I am God's special girl a Mystic soul that refuses to lay down and die, while the stars unfurl I'll lay on the freshly mowed lawn and watch the stars shine from on high, while I recall mamma's birthday cake and the fireflies that once lit up the sky. Date: April 22, 2021 Sponsor Name: Charlotte Puddifoot Contest Name: Open Poetry 3