Dear Valentine!

Dear Valentine,

Yesterday, I wrote a love Poem,

I wrote it for widowed mothers,

I wrote it for Orphaned children,

I wrote it for scared men,

I wrote it for Poets,

I wrote it for men shot on the streets.

I wrote it for worried writers.

I wrote it for You.

I wrote that,

They should forgive us,

They should stop killing us

For speaking against the wrongs.

I wrote that my brothers are scared,

They are scared because they're dying,

They are dying graduating-

Graduating for jobs that are Chinese, Russians and the old.

I wrote another poem,

I wrote that they should release all political prisoners,

They should stop arresting political protestors,

They should not exercise guns on everyone.

Dear Valentine,

Yesterday, I wrote that

I will love you if the nation gets free,

Because I am scared that you may lose me,

I may die anyway,

I may get shot for writing poetry.

I may get detained by the military.

And today, I may write again.

@ George The Tired Poet.

2025 Feb.

GEORGE THE TIRED POET