Happy Birthday to Us

By Mark David Blum, Esq.

We turn 20 the day after today.
Huzzah. Huzzah. Hip. Hip and Hooray.
Light up the candles.
Sound out the drums.
For the past 20 years
We’ve been ‘The Blums’

I sit here befuddled
As to just what she sees
To have spent 20 long years
Married to a bum like me

Long and far from perfect
And failed every test
I’ve been a lousy husband
She knows that best

But she’s still here

I take all the blame, responsibility and shame
For all that has been done to besmirch our good name
She failed no one except her own dreams
But she is still here. A mystery it seems

Professionally, I’ve done a thousand divorces or more
Met every kind of woman, from nun to a whore
I seen the brutality, horror, and bloodshed abound
Never in my house; in the 20 years she’s been around

Long long ago, if she had asked me
Not as her husband, but professionally
I would have said “dump him” and “drain him”
“And clean his fucking clock.”
“Take all his stuff and mangle his cock”
“No woman should endure that;
such heartbreak and such shame.”
“Walk out now quickly and get rid of that name.”

But still 20 years later, through winters and snow
Through laughter and adventure and the pain life doth sow
She still sleeps in my bed after 20 years; now more
That alone speaks louder than the volume of my snore

Twenty years married and I would have to say
I don’t even know her. She’s a stranger to this day.
But like a budding tight rose slowly opening wide
Every day is a new experience to explore her inside.

To those of you still striving,
learn the lesson this way
Twenty’s a lifetime
Yet gone in a day.

Back to the MarkBlum Report

It is always a far better thing
to have peace than to be right.
But, when it is not,
or when all else fails

LAW OFFICES OF
MARK DAVID BLUM
P.O. Box 82
Manlius, New York 13104
Telephone: 315.420.9989
Emergency: 315.682.2901
E-mail: mdb@markblum.com

Always, at your service.