VALENTINES

A pack of pretty greetin’ cards

Is what I remember best

Some covered with lotsa glitter

Out shinin’ all of the rest!

Red hearts in all shapes and sizes

Each printed with sweet little rhymes

Askin’ the ones that received ‘em

If they’d be my Valentine!

It was fun to give mine out first

And, hide in the back to see

When they read those pretty cards

What they would say about me!

I always got a lotta cards too

My friends were so sweet back then

Delightin’ me with what they said

And, signing their names in PEN!

Valentine’s Day was so much fun

When I was near eight or nine.

Each one brings a smile to my face

Those Valentine days of mine!

Now I have a new group of friends

Who mean all the world to me

And as they read these words I write

I’ll be watching quietly

I hope they’ll think of big red hearts

And, remember those sweet rhymes

Knowing it’s from MY heart I ask

“Won’t YOU be my Valentine???”