Love Poem: My Valentine Rituals
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Written by: Alayande Stephen

My Valentine Rituals

MY VALENTINE RITUALS

A day set aside
Only for love to tangle
A day where gifts are exchanged 
All in the name of love

A day where love is confessed willingly
A day that increases birth rate 
A day where lies reign supreme
A day where truth are rarely spoken

How many valentine dates have you this year?
I remember those yesteryears where I count 
In double figures my valentine dates
Lies in all its shades comes into play
Deceit in all its forms void my thought
My specs & species are divided into three folds
Classified in order of priority

Some plays in the league of Pre-Valentine
Such are told the lies of my travelling
Before and on the valentine day
With pomp, pageantry on red roses 
They celebrate their valentine with me 
A day or two days before valentine 

For the fortunate lady set aside to play 
On the special day of Valentine
She still do not have the luxury
Of monopolizing the day to herself alone

My Valentine day is broken into three
The ones that will dine with the King
During Breakfast, others during Lunch
And the last set are the ones for Dinner
Oh, I see you sigh for me! 
Sexual intercourse is not a key element 



The day is of love
I share mine amongst three or four ladies
Stop!!! don't judge me yet
I am not the ladies man
I am just the man that ladies love to hate

The last fold are the players of Post-Valentine
Those that basks in the basket of lies
That I travelled on Valentine day
Those here are not of after thought 
They are fed with lies of my travelling 
For one occasion or the other
Even weeks before Valentine

It was primarily my University days
Where I stayed in two campus hostels 
And two off campus hostels
These hostels are abattoirs for the butchers
We are the butchers... King of the jungle
A Don at my own game    





AST- 
3.35am-
@still at home in Berger, Lagos.     
12th April, 2015