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A Birthday Moment
by Barry Clopton Lanier (Age: 52)
copyright 10-14-2002


Age Rating: 13 to 127

 
At midnight tonight
My first life has passed me
I don't presume life will ever be the same
All that I hope and pray for
Is that tomorrow I rise to a higher plain

As I look back with some frame of reference
I try to measure
Was my past a casuality or loss?
Even though I have friends
And have made my amends
Shall I go back and count the cost?

Or might I just gaze toward the infinite future
Counting blessing received really just for free
And should I note with respect, humility, and give thanks
For the footsteps that have always followed me

Might I savor the little tender moments
And let go of the heartaches and pain
And bathe in the advent of tomorrow
As I mount up on a higher plane

Where is the promise of lifes celebration?
Maybe where destiny eventually leads me
Toward the obvious, the real, and the simple
Spiritual days ahead that shall one day set me free

I look forward to this day
And rejoice in it better yet
To that moment when the past and the present
Yields to a future and that day of no regret.


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10-19-2002 Delaney Lindley    

It was a little disturbing in the beginning. Makes you sound like an 82 year old man about to die on his birthday, or a 25 year old about to commit suicide ?.? In a damn kool way though...
10-15-2002 Kay Lee Kelly    

Very good, I like this a lot.
10-15-2002 Audrey Sullivan    

Oh this is such a nice poem
I'm So Sorry I;m Late.
Happy Birthday,
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