The Candles On the Birthday Cake

The Candles on the Birthday Cake By Franklin Price 4/23/2019 The Candles on the birthday cake One for each and every year We light them just to blow them out With friends and family near When young, it makes us happy Blowing candles not a feat Can put them out with just one breath Don't have to watch the cake we eat Years pass by and candles grow Takes many matches to be lit For the birthday celebration, On the cake, they barely fit When we get to middle age And we're forty-five or more We substitute the birthday candles For birthday numbers from the store The numbers also candles With just one wick on top When we extinguish only two They're out and we can stop Once we're over seventy Blowing two is still a bit So we forgo the candles And have a drink to get us lit Barb you're in this group with me Only two years, not a lot We don't do candles any more Is here an interest in a shot? Happy 71st birthday You're still 23 to me Love, Frank