I wrote this for a girl I’ve known since school (and who I used to call ‘Hermione’) on her birthday last year. But I guess this could be for every individual stepping out of adolescence into adulthood. Didn’t seem right that it was sitting in my outbox.
The Day You Turn 18!
I wonder if this is yet another set of verses
Written that will later gather dust in the mailbox.
But I guess it’ll have done its bit
If a li’l of stardust dazzles on your face as you read what follows
And on your 18th birthday, you are ready for the waters beyond the docks!
They are not piece of cake – the times ahead
Maybe you already have a plan in place for the future.
But the times ahead will be of myriad flavours – unexplored, not yet relished
Candies, Truffles, maybe an occasional Wax-flavoured Bertie Botts’,
And more, but always ready to surprise and occasionally send you into rapture!
‘You are an Adult now’
Well, at least the Constitution says so.
So, do you have the To-Dos on your Agenda?
A Career, Love and a Future shaped from your own hands
I sure do hope along the ride you have a lot times to shout out ‘Woh-hoooo!!’
Happy Effulgent Eighteenth!
