For your birthday this year
I bought you a frame
And put in it a thing
From our last holiday.

I wrote the year in the corner,
See? Just through the glass.
So you'd always remember
That moment together, the two of us.

On the back of the mount
I wrote my love declaration.
Lucid and bold,
So unlike my stifled diction.

Shocked, I replaced
The chipboard backing.
Honest words hidden,
Exhausted, mind rumbling.

And there it will stand
On your shelf quite plainly.
My confession laid bare,
For you to see, daily.