A shoelace dangles between my fingers. It is my gift to you this Valentine.
It's a bit muddy, stinks of sock and is coloured a fading blue The aglets still remain, but are worn with use, something like my feelings for you.
I know you love cheesiness and chocolate, But accept it, my love, for it belongs to the shoe, that led me to where you stood.
Tie it around your wrist, so that I'll stay around you, in your mind, around your beating pulse, lest you forget all the journeys we undertook.
Look. The string is tearing at places, but we'll just tie a knot again.
We'll be inseparable and true.
I fall with your fall, and you match your footsteps to mine, because like the tied shoelace, our lives are tangled and knotted.
Accept my gift, an old shoelace and tie us together Tight.
This is for an English Assignment. I thought I'd upload it earlier, so any suggestions are more than welcome :) Inspired by Valentine, by Carol Ann Duffy. (That's also the poem we read in class and are supposed to use as our topic).