Will you be my Valentine?
I know that I am yours.
You are like a tossing sea
And I am like your shores.
You are like an endless wave
And I your waiting sand.
And I will wait forever as
You come and smooth my hand.
I will wait forever, yet
You are a part of me.
I hold you in my arms, while you
Come to me endlessly.
Will you be my Valentine?
I know that I am yours.
I love you with a love that yearns
To be your golden shores.
Music: Free
By Daniel Rowe
Forgive me for what cannot be forgiven.
Open up the door I once slammed closed.
Restore the love that I once squandered, driven
Grimly by some grinch I’ve since deposed.
I cannot plead for what I cannot fathom,
Valuing least the value I most crave.
Each heart must sometimes haunt the steep-walled chasm,
Made mad by wrath and selfish songs that rave
Empty on the edges of the grave
Music: A Ei Di’r ‘Deryn Du
Sequenced by Barry Taylor
I love you, but I’m not in love with you.
I want your friendship minus your desire.
I would not lead you falsely or betray you.
I feel the tenderness, but not the fire.
I have no reason for my lack of yearning,
No explanation for what I don’t feel,
No other love to whom I might be turning,
No anguish to suggest this isn’t real.
Passion is a horse that knows no master,
And I cannot with fences make it stay.
It must run free towards daylight or disaster,
Awake to glory in no other way.
So I must say what you don’t want to hear,
But it’s a truth that both of us must bear.
Music: Lo non compro piu speranza
By Marco Cara. Sequenced by Curtis Clark
How can I fall in love with only words?
Words and pictures, grainy and compressed?
A jaypeg love is truly for the birds.
You’d have to wonder whether I’m repressed.
But love it is, through all the bits and bytes,
For someone who’s like no one else I’ve met:
Tender, charming, bright, queen of my nights,
All I’ve ever dreamed of, on the Net.
And though she’s living in a distant place,
I love her as I’ve loved no one before.
Will I ever get to touch her face,
Hold her in my arms and, perhaps, more?
Ay, me! No matter what, I’m still in love.
Through modems must our e-mailed passions move!
Music: Miss Noble
By Turlough O’Carolan. Sequenced at Ancient Music of Ireland.
I’m far too shy to tell you that I love you.
You’re a star far from my plain earth.
I gaze and see no woman who’s above you:
To me you are the cynosure of worth.
Yet with all your beauty you’re a person
Like me in need of sympathy and love.
Your thoughts of me would not, I dare hope, worsen
If I in some way tried your heart to move.
There’s pleasure, surely, drawn from the reflection
That someone, somewhere, worships your sweet face,
Thinks you are the summit of perfection,
Wants nothing more of life than your embrace.
The danger is you’ll think it couldn’t be;
So I suggest you see yourself through me. Music: Fugue in G minor
By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.
I know well I have no right to love you:
I gave you up, and now you’re with my friend.
But I can’t stop myself from thinking of you,
Even though that’s not what I intend.
I want you but I also don’t want you
To hurt my friend by breaking up with her.
So things go wrong no matter what you do;
I long for what I don’t want to occur.
Ah, me! I’m in a soap and can’t get out!
Help me if you can by being kind.
I tell you this to banish any doubt
That I’ll be waiting, if you’re so inclined.
But please, please, if my friend still has your love,
Forget completely what I’ve spoken of.
Music: The Star of County Down
Sequenced by Barry Taylor.
Your eyes won’t let my thoughts go back to sleep.
Your eyes won’t let my thoughts go back to sleep.
Your words draw me across 2000 miles.
I don’t know you at all, and yet I know
You better than my friends of many years.
The days I spent with you are like a tape
I play, rewind, play, rewind, and play.
Whenever I remember something new,
I feel as though you touched me on the cheek.
I miss you as the grass awaits the wind,
Or as the morning sky awaits the sun.
Although I look for you in every doorway,
I find only the darkness in my heart.
Music: The Bad Girl’s Lament
Sequenced by Barry Taylor
I never thought I’d fall in love with you
I never thought I’d fall in love with you. I thought someday, of course, I’d fall in love. But what it felt like, I just never knew; I’d no idea what I was thinking of. And then, somewhere between my need and pleasure, Walking neither overjoyed nor sad, I looked into my heart and saw a treasure Worth more than anything I’d ever had. Ah! This is love! I thought. And then I wanted To give my life to see your happiness. Suddenly, from nowhere, I was haunted, Needy, joyful, tearful, glad, obsessed. My love for you has brought me out of me. The beauty in your heart has set me free.
Music: Luke Dillon
By Turlough O’Carolan. Sequenced by Barry Taylor
