Please Don't Be My Valentine

Please don't be my Valentine

UNLESS your heart's sincere--

Unless you get all tingly

Whenever I come near.

 

You can't be my Valentine

If dreaming's obsolete--

If without me in your life

You wouldn't be complete.

 

How can we be Valentines

If we cannot laugh

At all our idiosyncrasies

That speak on our behalf?

 

There's NO way we'll be Valentines

Unless you find me charming--

Unless you find my silly habits

Pleasantly disarming.

 

We cannot be Valentines

Unless it means forever--

Unless our solid love is one

That even death can't sever.

 

No, we won’t be Valentines

Unless my words ring true,

And feelings that you have for me

Are just like mine for you.

 

But IF we CAN'T be Valentines,

Nothing else then matters--

My WORLD will be an empty shell;

My HEART will be in tatters.

 

(2-14-15)