a happy birthday song for you
in shades of vair and purple dyes
carved in the smell of primrose beds
and peacocks with a hundred eyes
in trinkets, gems and frankincense
and beauties in their silvery lights
in pearls and plums of thousand stars
found in the splendour of the nights
a hundred thousand golden birds
rejoicing in the lenient skies
as all that's good of nature's bliss
meet in your aspect and your eyes
green fields and lands and happy groves
and lakes of beads in rainbow's hue
the angels in their mellow sing
a happy birthday song for you
I wish you long life and prosperity,
Maya Catherine Obi