Childhood Birthday Dreams

Childhood's birthday dreams
were clad in pink, blue and
white icing. It was
like angels descending from
on high, when presents
were opened from elegant
wrappers; when we blew
out brightly- lit candles on
fine cakes in semi-
darkness of warm kitchens,
then made a wish.
Purple balloons above seemed
to conjure up rich
images of royalty.
To curious eyes,
it was a most enthralling
ceremony. To
live beside one's dreaming is
a wonderful thing.
Yet age corrodes innocence.
Henceforth, we tend to
cling to nostalgia's fragments.