I’m green with envy
Hearing you complain
About having to care for
Your aging father
It’s such a burden you say
What I wouldn’t give
To be planning my daddy’s
95th birthday party today
But there’s no party
No celebration
Only wishing him near
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The prompt today at dVerse Poets Pub today is to write a Quadrille (44 words exactly) using the word “green.” The prompt isn’t live yet in my time zone, but I peeked at some other poets who have their poems up already to find out what the required word is.
My dad would have been 95, but he died 23 years ago so this is as close as I’ll get to celebrating his birthday.