Birthday Poems: Angela 2013

And here's one for my wife, Angela, from two years ago. I usually either write one for her on her birthday or our anniversary, occasionally both. I've even written a few on Mother's Day and Valentine's Day.

The Beginning

A Poem for Angela on Her Birthday

March 13, 2013

Today, among the blessings that I own,

As well as those that dodge my thankless eye,

There stands this truth: that I live not alone;

For you were born; and I made rich thereby.

Your birthday, dear, is come, and I am sure

That they are wrong who dread their yearly feast;

To view a birthday rightly is the cure

For thinking that it’s naught but life decreased.

A moment fraught with promise, hope regained:

A birthday is a New Creation Day;

No year is lost, for all the past’s contained

Within the New that now is underway;

A chance to build, repair, to change our pace,

To seek new counsel, where our plans have failed;

A time of new repentance, and new grace;

A chance to see at last what once was veiled.

It is a day of resurrection life;

An Alpha, not Omega, waits for you;

And we will go together, dearest  wife,

Into the world, to conquer and subdue.