birthday poems?

[naturalog]

A girl with whom I have a... somewhat complicated relationship is having her birthday soon. We exchange poems semi-regularly and I'm looking for the right poem(s) to send her with her gift. I prefer short to long and loving without being overly romantic or devoted. They don't have to explicitly be about birthdays, but something involving the passage of time is good.

Thanks in advance!

(And, as a thank you, a poem I've been reading a lot lately: Tadeusz Borowski's You Know, I Think More and More Often. Don't know who the translator is, unfortunately.)


You know, I think more and more often
-- Tadeusz Borowski

You know, I think more and more often
that I should go back.
Maybe I'll meet you. And happiness?
Happiness is being sad together.

So I look through the moonlit window
and listen.
Nothing. A breeze stirs somewhere.
Alone among the leaves - the moon.

Like a golden wheel it rolls
above the windblown leaves.
Such moons, only paler,
shone over the Vistula.

Even the Big Dipper on its course
stops in a tree at midnight,
just like at home. But why here?
Truly, I don't know.

What's here? Longing and sleepless nights,
unknown streets and somebody's verse.
I live here as a nobody:
a Displaced Person.

I think of you. I know I must leave.
Perhaps we can return to our past,
but I know neither what youth will be like
nor where you are.

But I'm yours or no one's
forever. Listen,
listen, read this poem
if somewhere you are alive.

Edit: Mods, I tried to tag this, but it wouldn't let me add one for Borowski.