Though I don’t have

To give you a gold coin

But I have an open

Heart of mine

Though I couldn’t become

Shakespeare or Einstein

But I would never say

You a byline

If you be my valentine.

Though I meet with

So many girls clandestine

I drink bear, wine and cocaine

I watch pornography online

I would leave

All acts of libertine

If you be my valentine.

Though I like to live

In a family combine

So far I have followed

Parents and elders’ guidelines

Parents have been so far

For me an enshrine

But I would leave them

In the state of pains and repine

Not only that, every night

I would offer you compline

And I would serve you

Like a bovine

If you be my valentine.

Though I don’t afford

To travel by airline

My income doesn’t allow

In five star hotel to dine

I have no good house

But only ravine

But I would manage you

Everything, even though

I have to purloin

The assets of others

Or brother uterine

If you be my valentine.

You have become my lifeline

For you I am ready

To do any adulterine

I would swim

Against any streamline

I can define any doctrine

I would fight

Against even flue of swine

If you be my valentine.

I am mad after your grapevine

On your blossom

I want to recline

With you

I want to entwine

Oh my love!

Make my life illumine

And let us surpass

All glories of pristine

By being my valentine.

To my proposals

You don’t undermine

I am determined

To make you my destine

What I would not do

To see you of mine

If you not

Be my valentine

                                         (By: Vivekanand Jha) 

                                              The poet and Research Scholar