For My Valentine


Dearly beloved

Thank you for bringing me here

And showing

That real love is

When sex is not the climax

Just an interlude

Where the body takes over

From the heart

And before and after

All is One again

In a sublime togetherness

Never apart


It takes a very special woman

To make a man

Realise this truth

And I am fortunate

In having mine

This Valentine


Kishore Asthana