Happy Birthday

Today's your twenty-third birthday
and I wish that I were with you,
bit it's okay because I know you know
how much I really miss you.
We've had our share of fighting,
but when things were at their worst,
it was you I ran to talk to;
it was you I needed first.
When the boys would laugh and make me cry
with the hurtful things they'd say,
you'd hug me and you'd say to me,
"You don't need them anyway."
I wont forget the things you've done
that have helped me through the years.
I wont forget the times we've laughed
or the times we've shed our tears.
So I may not be there with you
to celebrate this day,
but you're in my heart and on my mind
and I wish you a Happy Birthday.