Fwd: Happy Birthday!!

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From: Arlin Wallace <arlin.wallace@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009
Subject: Happy Birthday!!
To: Nuria Musa <nmusa730@gmail.com>

Birthdays are reminders of where we've been
tears and passions,
triumphs and sin.
at these times we assess,
the things that bind us
and the things that we possess.
our frailty and shortcomings
but more importantly our progress.
but as a objective observer,
with humble speculation.
i can't help but to think,
of your 24 year gestation.
so, burst forth
with the best that has yet to be
fly, dance and love
with the abandon of the free.
worry is for the faithless
guilt is for the chaste-less
let none of it wet your wings
reject all burdens
and receive your gift
the painless wisdom of your intuition
on this anniversary of your birth
having all manner of introspection
remember only the joy and mirth

-arlin