Happy V-Day 2013

Happy Overbearing Romantic Feelings Day!!! As you might have learned last year, I'm not a big fan of all the candy, chocolate, hearts, and sappy cards. Okay, that's a lie, I like the chocolate part. But as for the other ones... I prefer to get down and lovin' on my lover all year long. With chocolate all year, too.

So here, as following in the footsteps of last year, is a rather muted poem. It's about love, don't get me wrong, but... well, read it for yourself!

I hold my cards close to my chest

Never letting anyone in

I don’t show my true colours

Instead keeping my thoughts to myself

Why would I do this, you ask

Because the world is so cruel

Narrow-minded fools are in charge

And refuse to understand me

I am deeply in love, yet I cannot share

I am listed as single, unwed

But as long as my love understands

I do not care

Some days it’s harder, I just want to scream

Because she means the whole world to me

But with all of the people surrounding me

I cannot express my feelings for her

If I were to do so, I know how it would go

I would be mocked, ridiculed, misunderstood

The masses would assume that they know me

That I am a whore, promiscuous, unfaithful

Two woman cannot be in love

It goes against the norm

So suddenly I am abnormal

People I’ve known since my young childhood

Will refuse to understand

They claim to not have ‘seen the signs’

But this doesn’t make sense to me

There’s nothing to see, I cannot tell

What signs they’re looking for

As if my love is a disease on my flesh

Easily known to all

So I hold my cards close,

I keep my true feelings locked

Inside the box in my soul

And one day when the world will understand

I will show pride in the love that I feel

And let my true feelings shine.