Birthday Cards

Back when I was
Just a toddler
Oh the trauma
I got a piece
Piece of a paper
I wrote happy birthday
Father
I was
Happy
I was
Happy
I went to the store in '24
Bought a birthday card
And it broke my heart 'coz
Back in '24…
(Oh ad meliora)
The look in her eyes so belligerent
The wife I adored the recipient
She displayed it abhorred
Beside her white cloche hat
With a baby on board
Our love? she quashed that
I went to the stor in '44
Bought a birthday card
And it broke my heart 'coz
Back in '44
(Oh ad meliora)
A tokn of my insignificance
My mother in law the recipient
It was during the war
She returned a white feather
With gracious rapport
I chose to keep it forever
I went to the store in '64
Bought a birthday card
And it broke my heart 'coz
Back in '64
(Oh ad meliora)
Composure a touch of the omnipotent
My sister of yore the recipient
There were flowers galore
So I got a white rose
With subtle furore
She kept it for…
A minute a most
A minute a most
A minute a most
A minute a most
I went to the store in '84
Bought a birthday card
And it broke my heart
Some would act indifferent
But my Big Brother’s still the recipient
(A minute at…)
He had died years before
But that was something ignored
Because to me he still became a centenarian
Our childhood’s sat at the centre of his heart
Discontented when it parted
So I sent the card to Neverland
And I went to the store 4 years post millennium
To get a card for my eldest son
But there was none with his age
See I tried to assuage
Because he needed to gage
That I had put in the effort
Happy 80th Son
But the lithium won
Soon as the search had begun
And put a stun on my method
Now I was looking for hours
Hours, I was looking for
Looking for hours
Hours, I was looking for
Looking for hours
Hours, I was looking for
Looking for hours
Hours, I was looking for
I went to the store
In 2024…