Eight teen

 People say age is just a number, 

I say it's is a delusion of a deluxe illusion.

Age is not something you have,

It's, "what you are, what you were & that you'll be"

The melting candles smokes & blows

Are nary an impression 

neither the flickering crackers, 

And the irksome confectionery traditions. 

It's the memoir, 

The tactile of the reality of life, 

a fact that things will never be the same again 

Are the annual novembrine 27th's package. 

People say nothing changes, 

Withal for my case it all changed then, 

when I went to bed an old child,

And woke up a young man.

@juliuscseguya