Poetry Friday - A Valentine's poem

So, here is a poem for single women everywhere, for tomorrow. After posting on singleness recently (you know where) I have lost all shame. I've got nothing left to lose. That and I think something needs to be done about the groundless stigma of being single in this country. So, I am going to do my part with an original poem. My disclaimer is that I know this is a poor excuse for a poem. It's one of those "scraps on the way to prose" things. Consider this a thought that I just dribbled down the page. And I have contorted my bible verses (see below for the references) but just call that poetic license. I should probably disown line 3, lest I be labeled with that "D" word that women have to pretend they have no interest in relationships to avoid, but just run with the sentiment (and I would think twice about a guy who turned up with a stuffed gorilla—which I have never been able to understand in connection to Valentine's day—but when else am I going to get to use "stuffed gorilla" in a poem?).

So here it is:

No red roses come for you

Nor any more original flower

You'd take a stuffed gorilla

From a heart that was yours

Everywhere today

The world declares you don't belong

To those it is made for

But each today is strung by the Eternal

The world was made by a dying love

Greater than St Valentine's

With eyes that rove the earth for

Hearts completely His

And in arms everlasting

You belong.

For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.

2 Chronicles 16:9 (New American Standard Bible)

The eternal God is your dwelling place,

and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Deuteronomy 33:27 (English Standard Version)