Mar 11
Today is my fake birthday
On my 16th birthday,
I filled out the paperwork
at the DMV for my drivers license
The Paperwork came back
Invalid date of birth
How can that be
I knew when I was born !
I requested a copy
of my birth certificate,
Three months later
I was stunned to find out
The date I celebrated
For 16 years was wrong
My fake cake birthday song
Off By a couple of weeks.
That’s bogus it stinks.
One of eight children
We line up roll call
We all had a number
I was number six
I was lost in the shuffle.
We had many nannies
Babysitters too
perhaps one of them knew
My brothers and sisters
Don’t remember curious
But nothing really serious
they all thought the 10th
was my true birthday
Both parents are no longer alive.
There’s no one to ask
How this happened or why
To be fair, this happened
to my younger brother as well
But his was only one day off
They say we spend our adult life
Getting over our childhood
I thought mine was fine
until I was lost in the shuffle.
On my 16th birthday,
I filled out the paperwork
at the DMV for my drivers license
The Paperwork came back
Invalid date of birth
How can that be
I knew when I was born !
I requested a copy
of my birth certificate,
Three months later
I was stunned to find out
The date I celebrated
For 16 years was wrong
My fake cake birthday song
Off By a couple of weeks.
That’s bogus it stinks.
One of eight children
We line up roll call
We all had a number
I was number six
I was lost in the shuffle.
We had many nannies
Babysitters too
perhaps one of them knew
My brothers and sisters
Don’t remember curious
But nothing really serious
they all thought the 10th
was my true birthday
Both parents are no longer alive.
There’s no one to ask
How this happened or why
To be fair, this happened
to my younger brother as well
But his was only one day off
They say we spend our adult life
Getting over our childhood
I thought mine was fine
until I was lost in the shuffle.
I have a brother who will send me a text or call me on my fake birthday and he’ll laugh and sing happy birthday and then say not. I didn’t remember it on my right day, but he remembers it on my fake day which is today March 10 the way I look at it is none of the other brothers or sisters remembered my birthday at all so at least even though he’s mocking me jokingly not at least he’s talking to me that’s a good thing right
