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A Visual Video Representation of the poem "Birthday Song" by Evan Jones.
Since the poem is rather long, I decided to only visually represent the second stanza.

The second stanza is as follows (I broke it up into 4 stanzas with 6 lines each):

This is to celebrate a birth,
Mark the majority of one
Whose feet are on a likely road,
darker the air, colder the earth,
dangers to fly, gauntlets to run,
frail is the heart, heavy its load

Setting out at last alone
With no blade to clear a way
Or break the endless chain of choice,
griefs that are known, griefs still unknown,
nothing to keep, nowhere to stay,
only a pen, only a voice

Beyond direction and advice,
But watchful, calm and unafraid
Even of the years in spate,
nothing can help, nothing comes twice,
walk as in fear, walk undismayed,
fired by love, tempered by hate

Towards the sudden final turn
And the unexpected close
Against which words cannot prevail.
silently freeze, secretly burn,
hushed is the song, folded the rose,
never we win, never we fail

In summary, the poem is about Life and Death. The Author expresses the difficulties, dangers and emotional burdens in life. She is remorseful and regretful (possibly about her past). Although the title "Birthday Song" makes us think it is about cheerful things, it is actually an incredibly deep poem with so many feelings conveyed to the readers.

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