A Birthday Greeting

I read through the greeting cards

Hoping to find for you.

I read them all:

Short and tall,

Red, yellow, green and blue.

None seemed to have the right meaning

To express my true thought.

None funny

Or too sunny

Or deserving to be bought.

It's hard to find a card

With the exact, sentimental phrase.

I'm not a sentimental person

Nor given to sentimental ways.

So I did what I had to do

To demonstrate mi amore.

I scrubbed

The tub

And washed the kitchen floor.

Although,

as a writer, I know

To say this is hard:

Sometimes, actions

Speak louder than cards.

 

Bill Lazarus is been a long-time writer, educator and religious historian.  He started teaching when he was 13 year old and has been rarely out of a classroom since.  He hold an M.A. in communication from Kent State University and is a full-time instructor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.  You can write him via this website or www.williamplazarus.com