Birthday March 2013 - Grandma

Birthday March 2013 - Grandma

Your wonderful age is now eighty five.
Your experience, life lessons, money cannot buy.
Your joys and your happiness, memory brings back.
Your life all the colours, white, through red, to evening dress black

Have a happy birthday
and enjoy the whole day.
With the clink of our glasses,
setting it on it's way.

5 Year Anniversary

5 Year Anniversary

When you reach five years,
they all talk of wood.
I'm recalling what has passed
and it's all been very good

Five milestones amongst many.
On the winding path of our lives.
As a team and on our own.
Our dreams, we work, we realise.

But when life throws distractions,
that seem to muddle the way.
I remember what really matters.
Our love for each other,
that we celebrate on this day

Birthday September 2012 - Aunt

Birthday September 2012 - Aunt

Our lives they come in stages
emerging as we pass through our ages

Like a caterpillar snuggling inside a cocoon
bursting free not too late or too soon

this stage is freedom, move through your day
twisting and turning any which way

enjoying your birthday, spreading your wings
a new lease on life, the joys it does bring

Birthday September 2012 - Uncle

Birthday September 2012 - Uncle

Golf, they say, is harder than it seems
the colourful language, the putting green

A relaxing walk with ample time to talk
about birthdays, grandkids, family and sport

Spend the next year, doing that which you choose
improving your handicap and an afternoon snooze

Thank You For Everything

Thank You For Everything

I know we've said thank you
for what you have done

I know we'll say thank you
for what is to come

No matter the number
it won't feel like enough

The three of us grateful
your generosity, your love
and all of the small stuff.

Something For Sister - 32nd BIrthday

Something For Sister - 32nd Birthday

Have you heard the news?
Stacey is now Thirty Two!

A newer woman with experience and culture
While living overseas on little island Malta

A newer woman, now sporting jewels
appreciation for the finer foods
and occasionally, some high heeled shoes

But still the signs I cannot miss
Beneath the surface, my little sis!

No Longer - Song Draft For A Friend

No Longer - Song Draft For A Friend

betrayed I feel
all the times I've kneeled
bowing down
the worship of a master

betrayed I feel
as NONE OF IT WAS REAL
a promise
of a life forever after

I .... CAN NO LONGER BELIEVE!
I .... AM NO LONGER DECEIVED!
MY... MIND IS FINALLY FREE!

pages I've turned
abide or be burned
ten commandments
or a life strewn with sin

pages I've turned
was NO SALVATION TO BE EARNED
false promise
of eternity with a king

I .... CAN NO LONGER BELIEVE!
I .... WILL NOT REMAIN DECEIVED!
MY... MIND IS FINALLY FREE!