it’s love

this fourteenth

i want to celebrate love full circle

i don’t care if it doesn’t fit

the shitty standard of valentines day love

did you know

love is around us, everywhere

even without a significant other

appreciate your family

and your friends

the rowdy neighbors next door

the wind that sneaks through your window, even

i don’t mean to destroy the sacred

eros or whatever that’s worshipped on this day

but if i’m being honest with you,

you’ve felt this love

before you were aware that another kind existed

you’ve felt this love

from the moment you arrived in this world

and i’ll be damned if that isn’t something to be

celebrated or even recognized

on february fourteenth

look at the love that surrounds you, daily

and even if it isn’t your ideal kind

i still think it’s something to celebrate.