Rhyme & Reason - a reason to rhyme

(added to the verse on the birthday card) Looked through a few As I thought of you, I really have been blest, This said it all, From your friend Col. These sentiments were best. So H.B.D. To you, from me, You ’ re one I won ’ t  forget, With hugs and love From up above, That ’ s north, - not in Heaven yet.

               So what's your best achievement,           Nigh four decades have passed,           The thing that makes you oh so proud,           To make your name to last?           For some it's their accomplishments           Or academic gain,           Still others, the career they chose,           Which kept you all so sane.           Perhaps it's working hard and sore,           Which enabled you to thrive,           While paying in, so you could gain           That "Freedom fifty five".           For me, it's nothing that  I  did           That I am pleased to say,           But something that was done  TO  me           Which makes me proud today.          The syndrome that I had from birth,          Preventing living full,          Some of you may have witnessed it          But thought I was a fool.          I couldn't be a teacher          While standing 'top the class          If I took i