Valentine’s Day
Posted on: February 13th, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized.# 5 in a Week of Love poems – #6 tonight – and #7 – tomorrow!
Also – check out “Touching: Poems of Love, Longing and Desire,” by Fearless Books – a great Valentine’s gift.
Valentine’s Day
Cupid’s army woke up
On the wrong side of the bed.
Shot a shower of arrows helter skelter.
Hearts were slashed, lives were razed.
All the wrong people were falling in love.
Call it global warming, climate change
The darts flew willy-nilly.
Married fell in love with married
Single with married, old with young.
Mothers tied yellow ribbons around baby carriages
Brides-to-be pulled the wedding veil close
To protect from Cupid’s mayhem.
Still, souls collided and worlds divided
When Cupid struck us broadside.
We felt an ache as the small bones,
The ones that protect heart from hurt,
Front and back, cracked.
Pierced arrows fell limp, angled
When Cupid turned his face askew,
And Love, his mercurial agent, ran amok.
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