Happy Birthday to me!

Today is The Wizard's 63rd birthday!

On My Birthday

 
 Today I pause, the world still spins,
A quiet reckoning where time begins.
Candles flicker, their flames confess,
The weight of years, the light of less.

Each moment gathered, stitched in thread,
Of words I spoke, of tears I bled.
Yet laughter lingers, warm and true,
A gift the years have granted too.

The mirror whispers, soft and kind,
That age is more than years defined.
It’s stories told and lessons kept,
And dreams that woke while others slept.

So I lift my heart, I lift my gaze,

To all that waits in coming days.
For every year’s a door swung wide—
And I still carry youth inside.