Happy birthday

Happy birthday

or more like happy belated birthday -

I'm a day late -

but still

you're fourteen now

same as you were a week ago

but older

You'll be driving in what, two years?

we're so old

yet still so insanely young

that awkward in-between of ages

teachers are telling us and showing us what reality really is

but are we ready for it?

I think

that it depends on how old you feel inside

how prepared you really are,

not how prepared you think you are.

You're prepared for what's to come

and you have the heart to bear it.

I believe in you

I'll support you if not every step of the way,

but as many as I can.

Happy birthday to you

from

your friend.