• Roses have thorns
    And violets turn brown,
    Hearts get torn
    And ships go down

    Apples go rotten,
    Strings will break,
    Words are forgotten-
    We make mistakes

    Sunrise to sunset,
    Twilight to dawn,
    We cannot stop it-
    Life goes on

    Smiles are sticky,
    Sunshine can burn,
    Love can be tricky-
    Some never learn

    Roses you hand-picked
    Decay into ground,
    None of it’s perfect-
    Look around

    Corniness, flattery
    Make me feel sick,
    Once out of batteries
    You’re just a brat

    Meaning is twisted,
    Trust is used,
    Aid, resisted
    Love, abused

    Humans are flawed,
    Beauty is pain,
    Self is a god,
    My loss is your gain

    Love can’t be trusted
    Only hate,
    For action we lusted
    And sealed our fate...

    I guess by all this, what I’m trying to say
    Is I’m thinking of you on this Valentine’s day
    I’ve no perfumed hearts and no roses of white-
    No, I wrote you a valentine
    That bites.