Now Mandy Is Fifty !

Things keep on changing
They are all different now
If you take a look back
I wonder just how
Much different from when
You were, forty, thirty, twenty or ten
Now fifty years past
Who knows what will be
Something crazy and wild
Or maybe just free
You are a sweet, scented rose
In the June summer sun
This rhyme is for you
And this day is the one
When all your friends
Will come to Bath
To sit in the park
To party and laugh
And to toast to your birthday
We’ll drink and be merry
Be thankful for small things
Like you’re too young for sherry

I wish you big love
And also much laughter
As your heart comes to rest
In the happy-ever-after
And in many years to come
When you look back again
You will marvel as you remember
Wow I was only fifty then

SH June 2009