Birth Celebrated
By Leonard Layne
Another season gone? So passes time..
So much the moments turn to years,
A stream of gently flowing cares.
And have I changed? Alas, is there no sign?
Yet this one thing is seen, that wisdom grows
Which is more fragrant than the reddest rose.
What shall I do this day? How shall it be?
I’ll spend this day, an hour of sweetest mirth.
In this fine way I’ll celebrate my birth.
For Amy, an employer August 8, 1998