They Say It's Your Birthday!

I would like to wish one of my five readers a Happy Birthday. She'd kill me if I said her age or her name so we shall just wish the Happiest of Birthdays to my sister Boo!

I found this poem on my senior yearbook page that my sister left to me when I graduated from high school. I thought it was appropriate to send it back to her. Bet she doesn't even remember writing it to me, lol.

Brothers & Sisters
by Florence Sherill Ferrell

From where love came, we cannot see:

Perhaps, within us, born and bred,

Or taught to us at parent's knee,

Or instilled by God in heart and head.

Perhaps it sprang from some kind deed,

Which, long forgotten, yet has grown

To dazzling heights from one small seed

In the fertile soil of distress sown.

Respect rises up so far above

The pettiness of separate view;

Differences bow before a love

And friendship that is blood-bound, too.

May the bond between us stronger grow,

May I prove the fondness I confess,

Which my hand's service cannot show

Nor my simple words ever express.

Hope your Birthday is Happy!
Love ya, Gertie