Two Birthday Cards

Why give anyone two Birthday Cards ?

Hello Mama

Yes Ma’am, I know that you won’t Be with Us for your Birthday…..

But, I’m going to Celebrate your Birthday anyway.

Remember, how I used to always Give you 

Two Birthday Cards ?

One was Funny and One was Serious.

You’d always Ask to open the Funny Card first.

It would Joke about your Age or your Chickens

Or your Geese or your Goats or your Cats or your Dogs……

And we’d Laugh and Laugh

And Discuss the Artist’s Work

And how we might have Drawn or Colored this or that Critter differently

Then you’d open the Serious Card

Almost Reverently

The Card that Beautifully and Classically

Depicted a magnificent or simple Place in the Natural World

And Poetically expressed a Daughter’s Love, Honor and Respect

For her Mother 

And their Familial and Spiritual Bond

Then you’d Cry and I’d Cry

And we’d Laugh and Laugh

At one another’s Sentimentality

And tell one another how much we Cherished one another’s Company

And then we’d give one another

A Big Hug

Well, I’m Hugging you Real Big right now, Mama…..

Real Big……