Be my Valentine, for I Each day have thought of you. My whole life couldn’t manage what Your ready smile can do, Vanquishing my loneliness As though all light were new. Let me be your Valentine Even as you’re mine, Needing what I have to give That each might each define In friendship and in harmony, Now you, now I the melody, Each helping each to shine

Be my Valentine, my love, As I will be for you, And we will love the whole day long, And love our whole lives through. For love has no parameters And does not end with time, But is the gift of paradise, A pinch of the sublime. So let us take this holiday To resubmit our love To those within that know no sin And with the angels move

Be my Valentine: What does that mean? Each of us must walk through life alone, More deeply desolate than we have known, Yearning for a truth we’ve never seen. Valentines are from beyond that dream, Are like a sunrise on a world of stone. Little on this journey can we own Except as miracles might intervene. No way but through loving might we give The freedom of our being to another. In such a sacrifice we hope to live No longer bound by dreams of flesh and bone, Even as we bind our lives together

B-e with us in the circle of our love, E-ven if by chance you are alone. O-ur greetings we have hope your heart will move, U-niting our good wishes with your own. R-emember there are those who think of you, V-ested in the will to be a friend. A-s distant hills give depth to what we view, L-et these words some grace to your day lend. E-ach life is lived behind a sheltering veil, N-ot lifted but for love. Yet when we will, T-here is a wind that shifts the rampart frail, I-nvading with sweet scent the spirit still. N-ow may we all enjoy this fragrance fine, E-ach each other’s secret Valentine.