Today Let's celebrate In joyful bliss For your stamping With tiny footprints On life's lease For tomorrow We shall dial again Deep into our conscience 8:46 am Marks the beginning Of deafening silence You are ahead By just one day Nine years ago But one day Separates the worlds Joy and sorrow You are fortunate (or really so?) Free to say cheese And can have a mouthful too Unfairness to you Takes on a new meaning No peanuts and fish, for good Surmise not for a moment Plenty is children's lot Around the globe Thin and dry walking sticks Cast in sultry Sahara desert Ghastly shadows You have a foretaste of wealth By owning tanks and planes All made of plastic lego Online basketball befits your stature Virtual pets cry thirst and hunger Pool table connects vying souls Inventor's dream of yours Can be illusive to many Who struggle to gingerly tiptoe Maimed Afghan lads still groan Gaza Strip continues to moan Anguish in Euphrates foam I love your inquisitiveness You pry before many a bedtime prayer For my childhood stories untold I love your gentleness Bequeathed unlikely by genes alone But the spirit within upholds I love your frankness You taught me Less serious may I be so But you appeared to be serious When you asked me if top 1% Suffice for Harvard to go I love to hate your babyish utterance Your tentative pleas to sleep by me On weekend nights if stars glow I love to hate your selective laidback attitude You try hard to bat the ball beyond reach Catch fast only to throw it slow Just like your sisters sang this morning Happy birthday to you You are one hundred and two You smell like a monkey And you look like one too Happy birthday to you (9/10/2003)