Valentine

Valentine, how many times

can I tell you how much I appreciate you.

You are so clean, thinking ahead

to the things that will please me.

So calm and gentle, even when you give me

things no one else seems to know I want:

your vision makes it all clear for me.

When I'm worried about the energy sprayers

I see you and you show me we're not all alike;

you tell me that people are learning

and don't want to be criminals.

I don't mind our differences when you lift

me into a different light.

I appreciate you. I appreciate you.

You improve my life.

Stay trustworthy.

You give me hope.

I want more of you.

I appreciate you.

Another Valentine to you...

So many times I spun around you. I didn't notice you. Over the generations, sometimes I was you (me still me) (you still you?). I always felt I was so close to finding...something. What was I looking for exactly? A mirror? A window? A door? A friend? A God? Another Earth? Another heaven?

Time is meant to evolve life. We have a choice. But wouldn't we strive to perfect? Live it as you wish it. Live it toward more peace, more trust, more of what love was trying to succeed at more than 15 matryoshkas ago.

Long ago “I love you so much” meant a punch in the gut, even a kick in the back for us babies. No wonder we grew a segmented spine (we would have grown it anyway?).

We were getting variously dragged around but I remember when I looked and saw your family I felt happy (I saw you?).

What are you doing with yourself these days?

I hope you are having a Happy Valentine's Day, 2020