My Valentine

Please leave yourself intact
the strands of brown
shroud your face without contempt
enhancing your eyes and every inch
spanning the globe I adore
from cheek to cheek
you are the world ,
mi amore

flowers are today's patriot
but girls like you rue the day
flushed and rushed as I write
something that would equate
to a beauty unparallel
to anything I could create

mixing up rhyme schemes
maybe borrow from one of your favorites
because theres time for you and time for me
and time yet for a hundred indecisions
and a hundred visions and revisions
before the taking of a toast and tea

Cupping your face in my hands
kissing those soft lips crimsonly
with careful abandon
mixed up are my words
your voice jumbles up my mind
mixes up the L's and O's
how much I olve you
I dont even know

as we twist and turn
to fate's accord
dancing improper duets
my feet ache from indecision
I just want to grasp your hand
and walk away to our island
where we lay
watching doves and creatures
of much greater stature
soar above us
envied at what we have
smirking, the wings you gave me
still so tender
enshroud us again
on our island of perfect
dreamless
ecstasy
just you and me
given a second chance
at feeling alive
please take my hand
and lets learn to fly

echoing these metaphors
and borrowing from poets of old
Dans la fenêtre complètement de la lumière
du soleil concentre
son pli d'or d'ombre sur le pli
usqu'à ce qu'il rougeoie aussi mûr
que les roses de gloire
mon amour
.. or so im told

hiding in the cave
seeing your listless smile
through running water
transparent as the evening sky
blurried and beautiful
grab my hand
and walk on through
but promise me
to leave yourself intact
for the strands of brown
that shroud your face without contempt
enhancing your eyes and every inch
spanning the globe that I adore
from cheek to cheek
you are the world,
mi amore