Personally, I'm not a fan. With just a week to go I want to say that I think it is over commercialised and, the day defeats the point of the notion. It's no longer a romantic gesture to buy your girlfriend flowers on Valentines day, it's an expectation. It would mean so much more if your partner got you a gift as a random expression of love. The only pro of valentines day for me is that chocolate is reduced the day after!
I wrote a poem a few months back that takes a dark spin on the normal romantic cliché so I thought this would be the perfect post to share it on:
Romance?
Our love is like a red red rose?
Dark and weltering as it nearing death.
Our love is like a fairytale?
There will always a be villain.
You are the apple of my eye?
Specifically, the hard foul pip.
You are the ying to my yang?
like a leach I can’t remove.
All is fair in love and war?
Innocents always suffer.
I can’t breathe without you?
I don’t get the chance to.
You are my soul mate?
More like my cell mate.
Two peas in a pod?
Trapped.
