a birthday poem

last june i made fruit tarts
to mark a new year
and they were "really good!" 
except for i underbaked the shells
and couldn’t find peaches
and also the custard
wasn’t as smooth
as it could have been

but no matter
we finished them within the week
and when you said "i love you"
in front of my whole family 
i believed it easily

celebrating life means celebrating
moving too fast and
making the best of and 
still not getting it right
in the end

but enjoying
despite