# a birthday every day

By [Lethe Beltane](https://paragraph.com/@lethe-beltane) · 2023-04-13

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every day, the universe sketches itself anew like an etch-a-sketch broken by accident from a cousin's fall if I am made of the same stuff as the stars then it is my birthday every day

but even if the atoms that make up my body all somehow- miraculously- came from the same ball of gas every day these days I keep reinventing myself so every revolution might as well be another birthday

I still suspect that others are lying about their birthdays an effortless reach for clout meaningless numbers on a screen that could all be extinguished in a moment's breath like the birthday candles you purport to require

but what is a birthday, anyway? just a day that marks one more year around the sun one more year of being on the run running out of time

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[_CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander_](https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/a/a-birthday-every-day.txt)

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*Originally published on [Lethe Beltane](https://paragraph.com/@lethe-beltane/a-birthday-every-day-2)*