I Love You, (A Birthday Poem)

Happy Birthday Emily!

Wishing you God's blessing today and in the year ahead.

Keep shining for Him!

May He bless you as you bless others!

It's a joy to share mother-to-daughter...

  but also mother-to-mother💗

 I love you!

How does one find new ways to say

Endearment’s oldest sweetest phrase

Or capture in poetic lay

Emotion’s oceanic waves

The affection we try to tout

In lines, original and new

Always seem incomplete without

Three little words, so tried, so true

I love you

How does one spell a heart; the art

Of tenderness is hard to snare

It sparkles in salt stars that smart

And catch in our throats somewhere

Where all the verses we compose

Will never leave us quite content

Without this three syllable rose

To satisfy soul’s sentiment  

I love you

Our first words breathed on newborn’s cheek

As we greet babe so pure and new

Our homage to the frail and weak

When no other wording will do

Three words to summarize the whole

When a thousand are not enough

Three words to capture heart and soul

But perfect, when it comes to love

I love you

How swift the days and seasons blur

Into a panoramic sweep

Autumn, winter, spring and summer

With oh, so little we can keep

Save pictures pressed into a place

Where rough edges are gilt with gold

And all that there is left to trace

Are three words that never grow old

I love you

© Janet Martin

Traditional Birthday verses but that's because 

we never outgrow the need for this reminder...

Prov.3:5-8

 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge Him,

and He will make your paths straight.

Be not wise in your own eyes;

fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

This will bring healing to your body

and refreshment to your bones.