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Joseph L. Kagle, Jr. Essays

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ANYTIME BUT VALENTINE’S DAY

 

It is simple, just say, ‘I love you”,

On every day of the year.

Valentine’s Day is the prostitute of love,

Selling itself for a chocolate or some card.

It cannot begin to fill the need to shove

A heart into the next dimension or discard

Reason for a chance to snuggle closer.

A Valentine’s Card will never replace

Warming the bed on her side

Or light the smile of her special face

Or fill the void when NOW

Consumes both our hearts.

So, friend, warm the bed on her side

All year, after the commercial smarts

Sell their thirty-second, joy-juice ride

They call “LOVE”.  For love is a soft sell.

Yes, I said, “Soft,” like a whisper,

Like a lingering reminder that she is well

And safe and near and…hell, kiss her

Any time except Valentine’s Day.

It is simple.

Omitting that commercial day

While honoring all the others

Is a special way

To say, “I love you.”

Read her this Sanskrit poem:

“Although I conquer all the earth,

yet for me there is only one city.

In that city there is for me only one house:

And in that house, one room only,

And in that room, a bed,

And one woman sleeps there,

The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom.”

It is simple, just say, “I love you.”