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I sat back on the mountain peak of my 31st,
A child at heart, the party of 100+ attendees
trotted all over the world:
From Frankfurt to India, Cali to DC, Buenos Aires to Pohang,
I am strong.

I gave myself a Thailand Elephant on the hills of the Hmong,
A camel to explore the Jaisalamer desert fort,
An interview with a Geisha one early morning treat,
Walking along side paupers and royalty with a Seoulian jade attitude,
…my lovers laid down the Floridian keys by my feet.
I am bad.

Before that, for my 15th birthday,
My mother gave me the moon in a necklace of pearls
and my father gave me the earth in a string gold
My uncle laid at my feet volumes of poetry and words
and my ant a five layered cake decorated with flowers
worth my weight in sweet delights
My friends played Sonoran trumpets that woke the morning sun for me,
I am a queen.

When my heart was broken
I cried a river that swelled pages of my journal
like the Mekong in Monsoon tides,
lachrymal sentiment fecundating California fires
all was dark and ashy,
all was a cry in the dark of a blues melody,
where the river took me was far and high.

So now I look ahead,
The Pyramids of Chichinitzen to explore,
where the moon cradled sun and Aztecs discovered dentistry,
while locals frolic and watch from Playa del Carmen, I’ll be there.
In front of Asian councils hours of evaluations
to be the first Colombian to achieve…I’ll succeed.
Hopping from island to island of tropical beauty
in Malaysian volcanic treasures of serendipity,
I’ll find…because there’s just no stopping me.

Happy Birthday to me!!

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“Serendipity…such an accident of sagacity..” –Horace Walpole