Would You Be My Valentine

Would you be my Valentine

Not in the soft scripted way

But in the way a heartbeat stumbles

When it finally admits the truth

I’m asking you with the full weight

Of every quiet longing

I’ve tried to swallow

With the fire that rises in me

Whenever your name crosses my mind

Would you stand in this heat with me

Where the air feels charged

Where the world narrows

To the space between your breath and mine

I don’t want the polite version of love

I want the kind that shakes the ribs

That pulls two souls forward

Like gravity has chosen them

And refuses to let go

Would you be my Valentine

Not because the day demands it

But because something in you

Feels the same fierce pull

That sharp undeniable yes

That lives beneath the skin

If you say it

If you even think it

I’ll feel it like a spark

Catching everything inside me