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Valentines Day

Twice did our love see the roses of

St Valentines rising sun.

That which follows,

worse than the one foregone.

For we were never

the type,

to

obey.

 

The fourteenth day,

of that second month,

he came to me,

and I heard him say:

"My darling, for you I bestow a gift! -

the gift of irony

No gift at all."

He knew me,

and he knew

me

well.

 

O' then the second Valentines,

saw that this year,

I had a gift for him.

A gift he'd rather not hear.

A gift I'd rather not bear.

The gift to end

all

gifts.

 

Autumn blessed me,

with the deterioration of his memory.

And Winter cursed me,

with a heart of stone.

Spring breathed life,

into that which

I thought I'd

buried

alive.

 

And he's happy now.

He has another now.

And I'll be okay so long

as the sky remains blue,

and the setting sun leaves

the clouds

a rosy

hue.

 

Remove these photographs

from inside my skull.

Can't you see they're

making my heart too sore?

Take these rose-tinted glasses

from upon my eyes.

For I cannot bear

them

 

anymore.

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Written by
beau-phoenix-rose
Australian
Published
Sep 15, 2012
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