A Valentine's Visitation

A Valentine's Visitation - a poem

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It was February 14th 

And so I printed the date in my journal 

with your favorite pen that I had never touched 

hoping that the ink could last forever

or maybe it wasn’t the ink

maybe it was just you 

your sweet laughter, the sound of your favorite song spilling onto the paper

your voice that would lull me to sleep every night 

until it faded away 

and I was left alone 

our child was gone and so were you 

I tried to leave like you left me 

I didn’t know where you were or what happened

So I kept drinking my sorrows away 

till I past out, knowing that I wasn’t going to live anymore 

until I blinked and suddenly, I had a Valentine 

you.