<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521527" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Sister's Birthday</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We watch as toddlers<br>run squealing through the house, <br>laughter bounding through bright halls, <br>a knee-level storm of pure joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They punctuate our grown-up conversation<br>as the slide-show begins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now you’re the bright eyed infant! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mom was so young and pretty<br>Holding you close<br>in her strong, gleaming arms, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as the cousins, delighted, cry<br>“Look! Grandma’s a baby! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In wonder we watch<br>the years of youth and school<br>love and weddings<br>and bright new babies, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">pause on the haunting eyes<br>of those gentle people<br>whom we’ve loved<br>then lost<br>to the good night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As your party continues, <br>I see in the eyes<br>of four generations, <br>a century’s worth<br>of smiling for the camera<br>a cloud of love<br>transcending both years and death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So don’t worry about your age, dear sister.<br>clearly<br>we never really grow old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521527" data-title="My Sister's Birthday de Steven Federle" data-description="We watch as toddlers run squealing through the house, laughter bounding through bright halls, a knee-level storm of pure joy. They punctuate our grown-up conversation as the slide-show begins. Now you’re the bright eyed infant! Mom was so ..."></div> </div> </div>

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