Valentine

I am thinking of my mother.
We never ‘connected’.
So, wisely I think, we kept apart.
She appeared unexpectedly and stayed with me during my bad time.
Then, politely, she left.
In her 70th year, on Valentine’s Day, she rang to say-

“There is something I wanted to say to you when I am old.
I will say it now,
for I may not grow much older.
You have been more important to me
than any work I ever did or anything I’d ever been.
And just in case you ever think, nobody does, I love you.”

She died two years later and left me her journals.
They revealed an exceptional human being.

on Valentine’s Day if you are with someone you love, tell them.