I Celebrate Life

Today I turn 28

It’s my birthday and I celebrate

But not the fact that I’ve survived to this date

For making my death day a little more late

And not the fact that I was born on this day

As if sun and moon and stars arrayed

Somehow created my life in some way

I celebrate life

I celebrate me

I celebrate this gift from God to be

The fortune to breathe and move and see

To follow opportunity

To cry and laugh, to doubt and believe

To give away and humbly receive

I celebrate life

My time on earth

My open identity that began with my birth

The possibilities for laughter and smiles and mirth

The relationships of unparalleled worth

I celebrate life

The opposite of death

The air that fills my lungs with breath

The sun, the dirt, my sense of touch

The smell of pancakes made for lunch

The way I feel after a run

Or when work’s done and I have come

With someone fun whose hair’s undone

To sit and watch the setting sun

Today I turn 28

Today’s it's life I celebrate

I smile forgetting pain, struggles, and strife

But in reality days like this are rife

For life is a celebration of life