Your Birthday

My Brother Lorne 1942 – 2004

Neglecting to tear
months from calendars
Does not keep them
from flipping past.

Refusing to wind or
acknowledge the clock
Does not keep seconds
or minutes
from ticking by.

Forgetting one’s birth
will never stay
the day
of one’s death.

©Sharron R. McMillan

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