Fifty
years is really not enough
In which to plumb the depths of someone's
soul.
Fifty more years, then, should be the goal:
To know the beauty of another's love,
Yearnings share, and any doubts
rebuff.
Yet life was never
easy in those years.
Everest is sometimes hard to climb.
A will to love has brought you to this time,
Rich in joys that time cannot remove.
So may this day be filled with happy
tears!
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Audio and Video Music: We Are the Rain. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.