It's Valentine’s Day

It's Valentine’s Day

This is the card I cannot give

I would have asked, but cannot

I would have said, but did not

You’re the most beautiful woman:

girlish laugh, the warmth of your hands,

the sound of your voice, the curve of your cheek

But I do not

Have never thought it

Meeting

wholly immersed for an hour

lost in a reverie of our present and 

of our past.  I cherish our chats

You permeate my life

But you don’t know this

I'm absent

it’s all the presence I need

I am not here

You will not read this

I did not write this

‘Little-by-little, my cart rolls on'