My Valentine Day

My valentine day
P K Routray
Valentine day before decades, a few
Youthful passionate relation existed between we two.
On valentine day I do not know then her emotion
But I used to wait on her way to college before dawn.
With true love to her I did woo
and matrimonial knot we went through.
But the stark realities of life
love, hate, harmony struggle and strife,
living day in day out together,
with pains, pangs, joy and pleasure
sharing the burden of our family in style,
with hidden grudge but outward smile.
We derived conjugal and marital bliss
with mixture of apathy and passion, bite and kiss
A valentine reward from my wife was hurling a frying pan at me,
when I told her the queen of my heart is somebody now not she.
I have faith that I can wrap my bald head with wig as cover
But her wrinkles cannot be taken care of by a beauty parlor.