--love happens when you're not looking--

    i wrote this for a valentine's day open poetry reading,
 at one of my favorite coffee shops(on valentine's day)--

--love happens when you're not looking--

love,
    it's nature's practical joke, the cosmos's wet-willy, or
perhaps an unwanted set of rabbit ears in your yearbook photo...
very personal, and very unexpected--
    this kind of magic is made with the heart, waved as a wand,
given to another, without expectations, or fear of rejection--
    it matters not, whom we love, so much as how we love them,
the deepest lovers cherish the whole person, for better, or for worse--

   today is the day we tip our hats, to those lucky few,
who have found each other...

              -- a happy valentine's day to all  :o) --

(rd)