Happy Birthday to a Special Friend

Happy birthday to a special friend!
Although I haven’t known you many years,
Perhaps because you’ve dried so many tears,
Pleasure reigns as I these greetings send.
Your happiness should last till all things end!
Because you’ve been so sweet and understanding–
In toughest times you’ve made me laugh and smile–
Rejoice in your own specialness awhile:
This I’m not requesting but demanding!
How else to make yourself the celebration,
Doing what does not come naturally?
Always your concern has been for me,
Yet now you must endure my adoration!

Happy Birthday to a Special Friend
Happy birthday to a special friend.
All my love to you this precious day!
Part of me knows just what I should say;
Part perhaps some deeper word would send.
You’re the strand on which I silent write
Before my dreams are swept far out to sea.
In you there’s room to canter and run free,
Restoring my lost sense of space and light.
To me you are a place where I can stay,
Hanging out to watch the rush of time,
Drawing in the sand a lazy line
Along which I can go my own sweet way.
You are my sun and shade, my bread and wine.

Happy Birthday Dear Friend
Happy Birthday my dear friend
You have come so far along
I know you expected something grand
Like a CD of your favorite songs

But I couldn’t make that this year
I decided to take more time
To put more thought into this gift
To write you a beautiful rhyme

We’ve been through a lot together
Through good times and bad
But you always stuck by me
Sometimes you were all I had

You’ve done a lot for me
And I’ve done some for you
All those times you felt sad
I was there to pull you through

Not only are you helpful
A laugh, you always bring
Even though it’s usually stupidity
It’s all the same thing

We’ve really come far
In this friendship that we made
You mean a lot to me my friend
I hope our friendship doesn’t fade

I hope this poem makes you smile
But I really tried my best
Happy Birthday to you my friend
I hope you don’t fail your permit test!