My Girl in the Garden

My Girl in the Garden (Happy Birthday!)

I see you in the garden,

I see the girl I love,

The one I fell in love with,

You were seventeen,

And, it was September,

College days,

I was eighteen,

In November,

You were eighteen, too,

The same age as me,

In February I turned nineteen,

It would be nine more months,

Until we were the same age, again,

You have always called that,

An important nine months,

Younger than me, again,

I laugh every time I think of that,

You make me laugh,

You make me smile,

Happy Birthday, Sweetheart,

I love you,

My girl in the garden!

Peter Lowell Paulson,

November 17, 2017