Today Is Your Birthday

It’s funny how birthdays lodge in my mind.  April 9th is the birthday of Frank Constantino, a boy who went to my school.  Energetic, original, jumping-up-on-the-desk crazy, loud, poetic, talented, and brilliantly far ahead of the rest of us.

So of course I had a crush on him.

TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
By April Halprin Wayland

I walk by your desk.
I walk past you in the hall.
I’m pretty sure you don’t know me at all.

At all.
But I know you.
I do.

I can’t look in your eyes-
but here’s a strawberry.
For you.

I want you
to know me,
too.

© April Halprin Wayland 2010 all rights reserved

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