My 86th Birthday

Woke up feeling excited

As my children will visit me

Spent my first minutes listening

To the music of the past.

While I read the newspaper

Sitting in my rocking chair

I wait for breakfast to be served

And when the time came, I stood up.

Guiding myself to the dining room

I walked slowly, but steady with my cane

And when I came to the dining room

I see decorations, a surprise party for me!

I was the oldest among my friends

In the nursing home that I lived in

While I waited for my children to come

I celebrated my birthday with my old friends.