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Your Birthday crept up like the morning mist

Rolling in across a silent sea -

At  first unnoticed, yet so fine it closed

About us, and now everything must be

In place, precise, ready to celebrate

Another year of grace - another year

Of subtle change - as all around evolves

While we, seemingly ageless, still appear

Untouched by time, events or circumstance -

As young at heart as were erstwhile,

Before the internet or mobile phone,

When simpler things could cause us both to smile,

            When silence said far more than 'I love you'

            And closeness, more than words could ever do.

Brian Hick August 2015

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