Eve's  Child

It's New Year's Eve
The world is celebrating
Drinking in the festivities
Make yours a double
For it's your birthday

Dearest Chrissy
Here's cheers to you
This is your year
Back in Melbourne
Where you belong
With your friends
We welcome you home

Forget the past
Bury the pain
Of a tragic time
That's no longer a part of you

Though you have grown through it
That period's made you strong
But now it's time
To cut loose
And let your hair down

Live life to the max
Get a little wild, child
Party hard
You deserve happiness

So here's your birthday card
Given with love
And signed in smiles
So display it with pride
Coz it's from your best friends.

©  Elizabeth
10th January, 1997

"Now I have to say that I love this one, as it is about me!  *smiles*.... Yes, my birthday is on New Year's Eve, and all my life I have hated it, because everyone was away or too busy to come to my parties.   Here my friend Elizabeth writes to me for my birthday this cute poem....I had not long left my abusive marriage just 8 months before and 1996 was not a good year for me.   Why Elizabeth wrote it nearly two weeks after my birthday I can't remember....but the thought was there for me to enjoy myself this birthday more than any other ~ after what I had been through."

You can visit Elizabeth's site
"Eyes of my Soul"
for more of her poetry.