Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

Happy 50th Birthday

50 years have flowed like water

Under times marking bridge

These passing years like water continuously flowing, ever changing-

Yet looking just as they've always looked-

Now, you are a fully matured adult

Fully tested and marked-

Passage of trials

Trails of determined triumph

Bold spirit riding time’s tides

Borne with ease-

Buoyant restlessness of youth

Having borne you

Across time, in place

Diaphanous immaterial mind state-

You are now the man you are,

Nothing like before

Fleeting past is but the direction to the future

Reflect; and mature ever so gently-