Here’s the deal about Birthday’s,
there are candles to be lit
and wishes to be made.       .      .
B               U               T
you don’t have to wait for the celebration
of your actual birth date.          .          .
why waste another moment?
CELEBRATE NOW
and forget to stop…
The best wishes aren’t wished,
but lived
until they become more true
than any wish, wished
or dream, dreamt…
SEE.           .           .
It’s ALL worth celebrating
N O W
So, I’ll leave this with you as a simple wish of mine before the 
candles are fully extinguised
and the cake and ice-cream
passed around:

LET ME BE A STORY

Let me be a story you tell
because you have experienced it fully
with no exceptions
no if’s
no but’s
no until’s
no excepts
but with an openness you’ve never known before
but now can’t help but to share
because you have known it so well

Let me be a story you tell
sprinkled with moments of humor
loaded with once upon a time’s
and an unlimited amount of
“what about the time’s?”

Let me be a story you tell
not because you’ve heard it with your ears
but deeply have known it in your soul

Let me be a story you tell
in a timeless generation yet to be born
not because the story is so infamous
but it’s moral is so absolutely right

Let me be a story you tell
A tune you hum
A poem you read
A life you now live a little better
and more inspired and hopeful

And may you too be the story someone else tells
A story uniquely yours
One that doesn’t mirror the same
but reflects even more

A manifesto poem
One that is known before it’s told or pondered
One that is lived well
One that is shared
One that is once upon a time’d
One that is fire to your wick
                  a flicker to your flame
                  a light to your lane
One that Is~~always IS