Each birthday you reach
is your last until
you reach the next one;
what are you doing
for your last birthday?
It seems only right
that there should be
some symbolic flame to it,
some burning down
of the previous years
as in a warrior’s funeral
or the high leaping fire
of any pyre anywhere
for at heart a birthday party
is the performed hope
concealed in the hot core
of the myth
of the phoenix.
Dark Matter 
March 11th, 2016 at 11:33 am
Joyeux Anniversaire!