Valentines' For The Single Poem by Quadarius Tarrio

Might be rich in cash but broke in love

No one to cuddle no one to treat as a king or queen

Needing that one person but saying 'I Love Being Unloved'

'I Love Being Single'

But deep down I'm suffering and pleading for attention

Just wanting my name to be an honorable mention

On this day where love is spreading

It's also the day of my heart's beheading

Outside I'm laughing and enjoying the single life

But inside I'm crying, feeling as if I'm being stabbed by a knife

I say I'm single because 'I gotta mind myself or some like that'

I'm actually single because I can't open up to people

Insecure about how others think of me

How can I love someone on this day if I can't even love myself every single day as long as I live?

If it rains on today, no one to sleep with

If it gets cold today, I'll have no one to warm up with

To a Single person on Valentines, is like being black at a KKK party

We just don't fit in.

We end our Valentines night as we began it

Lonely and Afraid