Valentinus the Beginning Of A lovers Day Poem by The Original Tom Maxwell

We are reminded of him, every year, on a certain day,
not much of the reason, he is remembered, in a special way.

In the third century, an emperor known, as Claudius the Cruel,
in those ordered all Romans, to worship twelve Gods,
or their life be taken away.

To be a Christian, and believe in Christ, was a crime,
the threat of death, did not scare this man,
as he was imprisoned, waiting for his time.

He taught a jailer's, blind daughter to pray, a light shone, in the jail, and she could see, the last note he signed, from your Valentine,
he was killed, on February 14,270 A.D. a special day, came to be.



Tom Maxwell copyright 01/23/2006 A.D.