Valentine

Hero-worship is reserved for
teenaged pin-up idols with their
dimples, prefect hair and muscled flesh.
You missed the age of
s h a l l o w i d o l a t i o n.
I love you not in breathless adoration.
Celebrity ... "who on who" and hissing
gossip slip beneath thoughts of
a good woman and children with their
sippy-cups and semi-famous father.
And thus you soon explode in cryptic laughter.
Subtle manchild brain cells take to dancing.
And you, encased in love past pin-up idol falsehoods,
Do not need my simple, raving valentine.
It's enough for me to watch you smile --
and know you'll never know.