I RECEIVED..........

On Saturday I received a helium balloon

Which carried a number

I’ve reached too soon.

How did I get to the BIG SIX O?

Those hours, those seconds
where the hell did they go?

Was it really my cake

With the sparklers burning

__ A Six and a zero
Was I Really turning ?

And the shiny banner in the tree

Were those big numbers

Really meant for me?

And the poster board

With golden six and a zero

Carrying photos of me

A reluctant hero

I wiped my hands on serviettes saying sixty

Oh how I’d wished that they had only said fifty......

But slipping from my grip , my balloon rose

Carrying my numbers to a higher repose

My sixty and zero became tiny spots

On that shiny balloon with the polka dots

How high did it travel, flying so free?

I am afraid, at sixty, I could not see.......