Another Birthday

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                                                                    Another Birthday
                         
Another birthday has come and gone.
Each new birthday always seems to bring depression on.
Thinking back, she remembered the days
when sixteen candles graced her birthday cake.
Life seemed so open to her back then-
no troubles or cares,
no bills or ex husbands' affairs.
It just seemed so much easier back then.
                                                       
Those days have long since gone
Along with bedtime discussions of the man in the moon,
neverland and tinkerbell and the dish running away with the spoon.
Now her bedtimes are spent alone
Her birthdays, spent knocking back shots of Patron.
Now she doesn't have to worry about skinned  knees
from falling on her roller skates.
Now she just wonders how long she would suffer 
from the hangover she was sure to have the next day.

But thinking about it, life really wasn't that bad.
She had her health, that was something to be said.
So what if her ex husband was a down right dirty dog..
and she didn't have the body of a barbie doll?
So what if she was thirty-five today?
Bring it on... is all she had say.