Birthday Bear

Today’s my daughter’s birthday.

She has so-called “special needs.”

Each year, she gives a list of gifts

She wants; my husband heeds.

 

I also add some extra things

I think might hit the spot.

A word search book of rock & roll

She seemed to like a lot.

 

A t-shirt with her birthday year,

Some leggings with designs,

But there is one thing after which

She always always pines.

 

A teddy bear! She owns so many

She needs not one more,

Yet that’s the gift above all others

She is waiting for.

 

And luckily for her, her brother

Found a “birthday bear.”

With party hat and cupcake,

It’s a bear beyond compare.

 

Her group home made a party

Which she loved, Hawaiian style,

But her birthday bear was what produced

The biggest birthday smile!