From my fourth book, "Any Forward Gear Will Do", which was published in 2014 and is available on amazon.
Gracias, Johnette
Every year you cheer me up
With your contribution
To natal acknowledgement
No matter how bad
Things are
Or seem to be
You get me to smile
And not feel so awful
Because your couplets capture
The balance of
Hope and hopelessness
That it seems
All unrequested celebrations
Are about
One of these days
Maybe it won't always be thus
But in the meantime
I'm going to drift like a cloud
Once more
And feel
Somewhere far away
