Birthdays

Why do people celebrate getting older?

One year closer to death

And you’re eating cake

Opening gifts that will collect dust

Things that your materialistic ass

Does not need…

A text message here and there

From so called friends who drop in once a year…

Happy birthday

Handwritten envelopes containing cards that will just

Get thrown…

But you throw away the wrong things

Handwriting is like a fingerprint…

Holds a lot more love and energy

I’ll always sit and analyse each letter

Forming a sentence that a person

Has written for me

Touched it with their energy

Sealed it with a kiss

All the intention in an envelope

That is addressed to you

Yet you throw it all away

Happy birthday