The Evergreen Valentine’s Day Poem by Venkatesh Raghava

Gopal loved a girl in school
And around her he used to fool
But he was afraid to say
Like other boys and girls in someway.

Old days love was a crime next to murder
And for people in streets to speak it was fodder
Despite the threat of being whipped
Some stood tall declaring love.

By sending SMS Gopal committed the crime
Receiving the reply, “Sure”, his face brightened
like a thousand watt bulb
As he sent, “I like you very much”,
Glowing literally with ‘surya koti sama praba ‘, touch.