valentine

I bought you roses you’ll never see
Wrote your name in every dream
You walk by like I don’t exist
Still, I ache for just one kiss

Your smile is my sweetest curse
I write you poems, rehearse each verse
But you’re loving someone else tonight
While I’m fading in plain sight

I’m the card you never read
The tear you didn’t see bleed

Will you be my valentine
Even if you’re never mine?
Can I love you from afar
Wish on you like a shooting star?
I know I’m just a shadowed line
But still I ask will you be my valentine?

I trace your name across my skin
Hide the hope I hold within
You never knew, or maybe you did
But loving you’s a wound I hid

You talk about love like it’s easy
But I’ve been bleeding quietly
And every February fourteenth
I write you letters I’ll never send

I'm the voice you’ll never hear
Screaming love through silent fear

Will you be my valentine
Even if you’re never mine?
Can I love you from afar
Wish on you like a falling star?
I know I’m just a broken rhyme
But still I ask will you be my valentine?

Even if it hurts, I’ll stay
Hold this feeling, come what may
I’d rather ache with you in mind
Than let this heart go blind

Will you be my valentine
Even if love’s not aligned?
Can I be your silent song
Even if it all feels wrong?
I’ll fade out with one last line
I loved you
My valentine