The year of being 30

We ate quadruple chocolate cake and she blew out
less than 30 candles, this happens as you get older,
the wind kept blowing them out.
she'll be married at her next birthday,
she'll be Professor McKinnon at UCLA,
living in the big city.
She's tall and elegant and knows her mind.
Thirty years ago, she was a newborn in my arms.
Thirty is an auspicious age.