A Valentine Mystery Poem by lalitha iyer

I know love
but no lover
do I have
I love many
but they are so many
and I cannot choose
as I am all confused
Valentine card I have one
just to send for fun
I cant remember the one
who is my closest chum
When I asked my pal
said he love is like ink
it spreads in the surface linked
it cant touch a rod of solid
and taint it for long easily rid
on my teens my love
was in the air
kisses and dreams all afloat
as if i drift in a boat
with the waves and tides
taking me up to skies
and then dropping dead
I was no asked to bed
as I grew and got my son
love was in affection
in caring the baby
and tending his hobbies
as I grew, my body disappeared
and I became formless
my dresses did not to me donate
neither my dreams did mattered
I grew up, to love the poor
to suffer with the blind
and always be kind
to the bereaved
and that is being brave
oh my dear Valentine!
love has mellowed
now i see love in grey hairs too
arching spines and affected knees
love I found in toothless smiles
and twinkleless eyes
ugly urchins they ask me to kiss
they smell- the smell of love
the orphaned boys
with blank eyes and no toys
they call me ma
and I feel that ma
is love so beautiful
when you age and fill.