Poetic License: ‘Birthday Poem for Marjorie’
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Joe Pacheco
(August 8, 2022)
On this special day I can recite the happiest verse:
I still love you and you still love me.
On special days like these I’ve held you in my arms
And kissed you again and again under the infinite sky.
You’ve loved me so much how could I not love you,
Not love the blue universe of your eyes,
Not feel the immensity of this special day
Made more immense because of you.
What does it matter if others cannot keep their love?
Today is luminous because you are with me
And this special day will leap into night,
Stars will burn bolder in the magic sky, the Man
Or Woman in the Moon will beam down upon us,
We will lie down once again in each other’s arms
And on this special shining night,
I will recite the happiest verses.