Valentine
Bitten by love bug,
my heart swells with edema
my love, like gnawing anxiety,
burdens me.
Like a knotty noose,
stifles me
Like a watch dog,
follows me
Like an inalienable shadow,
always with me!
When I turn around,
it is right behind!
It lingers in me
like a lovely metaphor,
like the intoxicating smell,
of the first summer rain.
In my world there are only two of us-
You and I
Wherever I go,
the world wears your face.
a face I have never seen,
seen only from behind.
I don’t know where you are now
in which alien shore you dwell
Yet I write this message,
in secret code
pouring out my longings,
my unuttered love,
my invisible desires,
into this scroll of paper
in cursive, indelible ink
I seal it in a bottle
with no address on
and let it drift over the currents.
It is meant for the one,
who finds it
and thinks it is for him.
He is my Valentine!
If you feel, it is not for you,
please don’t throw it as garbage.
Kindly put it back,
and let my love vessel float,
over eddies and currents
because my soul is encased within!
Just know this much:
It is for my Valentine from a lovely lass-
A blonde with golden hair!
Jan. 18.2023
Valentine Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Mystic Rose Rose
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