Peaceful Valentine Wishes

Happy Valentine's Day!  If you are going out tonight, good luck.  Personally, I don't think there is anything very romantic about pushing against crowds of people to get a table at a restaurant, but on the other hand, we are in recession, so it may not be so much of a fistfight this year.  For those of us who are staying home with our loved ones, enjoy a bottle of Michael Sullman Reserve Cabernet and relax.  Lord knows so many of us are stressing out over the state of things these days.  

If you need a little help getting in the mood, read below:

Refusal

Beloved,

In what other lives or lands

Have I known your lips

Your Hands

Your Laughter brave

Irreverent.

Those sweet excesses that

I do adore.

What surety is there

That we will meet again,

On other worlds some

Future time undated.

I defy my body's hate.

Without the promise

Of one more sweet encounter

I will not deign to die

--Maya Angelou