Be My Valentine, for I Be my Valentine, for I Each day have thought of you. My whole life couldn't manage what Your ready smile can do, Vanquishing my loneliness As though all light were new. Let me be your Valentine Even as you're mine, Needing what I have to give That each might each define In friendship and in harmony, Now you, now I the melody, Each helping each to shine.   Be Patient with Life Be patient with life, despite its cruelty. Often it seems careless of our pain, But just as often brings us hope again. Remember, I wanted happiness for you. Under every foolish word this still was true. Be happy, then, without, as you would with me. In your life many sweet events remain. Not in anguish, but in joy remember me.   Birthdays Are an Annual Excuse Birthdays are an annual excuse, A way of saying things we ought to say. Relatively few can sing their love Unless they do it on some special day. Hearts are shy, and words of little use. But now I want to tell you that I love you, Open up my heart and say the things Siblings seldom say to one another 'Cause of the embarrassment it brings. However long we live, I'll be part of you.   Bless You, My Sweet Miracle Bless you, my sweet miracle, Archangel of my heart! Pure joy of life, too beautiful To be a work of art! In baptism Such love of Him May Christ to you impart.   Blessings Are the Things We Take for Granted Blessings are the things we take for granted. Each holiday we notice what we see. Most know the Earth is utterly enchanted Yet walk through life and love mechanically. Valuing one's gifts takes resolution After days and nights of fantasy. Love brings the sweet relief of absolution, Enveloping our hesitance in need. No touch inspires so swift a revolution, Transforming all the hieroglyphs we read. In your love is the charity of spring, Neither self-obsessed nor blinded by some creed, Embracing the grey dawns that blessings bring.