FOR ALL THE VALENTINES

Here are two of my poems I thought I would post for Valentine’s Day.  The first, “Will You?” I wrote to my husband, Bryon, when we first started dating back in 1994.  He is still my Valentine.  The second poem, “The Question Of Love” came from all my own observations of relationships.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

WILL YOU?

Will you be my Valentine

Today and tomorrow

Just because?

Will you be my Valentine

And light my life

With your loving laugh

Melting my cares away?

Will you be my Valentine

My bestest friend

Who holds my hand

In sunlight and in shadow?

Will you be my Valentine

Heart to heart

Soul to soul

And walk with me today, into tomorrow?

Will you, Bryon

Will you be my Valentine?

__________________________

By Lisa A. Hatton

THE QUESTION OF LOVE

Love’s twisted way has led me here

Through convoluted passages

Some dark as night

Some flights of light

Some love is painful past endurance

Some as sweet as baby’s breath

Some is strong like faithful weeds

Some love as gone as yesteryear

Some love is maybe

Some forever

Some love is from the Soul

Some is from the heart

Some love is only in the mind

Some love’s a dream of what might be

Some a despair

For what isn’t there

Some love is knowing two are One

Some is watching that undone

Some love whispers gentle thoughts

Some love screams the pain that’s wrought

Some love is all consuming

And some is barely felt

Some love is give

Some love is take

Some is only action

Some is only words

Some love is past

Some will be tomorrow

Some love is unrevealed

Some love grows from where it starts

Some love dries and dies

Some love has been divinely planned

Awaiting my embrace

Love’s winding path

Has led me on

Ever changing

Undefined

Yet always new

Now that we’ve met

Just you and I

What new kind of love

Would you like to try?

____________________________

By Lisa A. Hatton