Come
won’t you
be
my
Valentine?
*
boon to the
heart
blessing
condign
melded of
sweetness
in whisper of
wine
*
bonded
eternal
plighted in
troth
vested in
fealty
in gifting
gratuitous
in forgiving
repine
*
we who
are
sod
yet dare
be
sublime
predatory
mammals
bare risen
from slime
*
though grappled
with griefs
in treasons
of time
erasing
foreclosures
of mine and
thine
*
won’t you
yet
won’t you
ageless in
heart
insensate
of mind
be my
be my own
Valentine?
[© R.Kanth 2025]
Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda, A Day in the Life, Expiations, and Farewell to Modernism</em>