THIS YOUR DAY!

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This Your Day !

This your Hour,

These your  Minutes,

These your Seconds,

This your very first Breath,

This your very first Cry,

This your very first Bath,

This your first meeting with Dear Mother; your first breast-feed,

This your first Smile.

This your World,

This your first Crawl,

This your first Step,

This your first Walk,

This your first Run,

This your first School,

This your first Test,

This your first Exam,

This your first Success,

This your first Dream,

These your dreams rolled over a thousand times,

This your first College Graduation,

This you on your first day as Teacher,

This you with your Learners,

This you finishing your 1st; 2nd and 3rd Degrees,

This you after all these Graduations.... Celebrating,

This you still Thinking...

Damn! I am X-years old Today!

These are the days of your life!

What Now?

This you today visiting the Library of Life.... Wow! So many rows of heightened shelves stretching as far as my Horizon,

This you running back to your room in tears... Sobbing,

Shoo!

I fulfilled my Dream!

This your Day!

Happy Fondest and Sweetest Birthday Thembi Gutyungwa !

Congratulations on all your Achievements!

You have made the Gutyungwa Family extremely proud! Keep wearing the badge!

Mavovo!!  Khabazela!! Gubhela!!


This Your Day Rhyme Written By: Sydney Pikelela Gutyungwa
© May 20th, 2025
Featured Title Song: Forest Echoes
From The Title Album: Three
Cool Jazz artist: Paul Hardcastle
© 2002


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