The Letter

Dad makes Valentine's Day worth it
despite the drowning flood of choking chocolate hearts.
Dad reminds, subtly, of passions behind the heart that beats to one rhythm
alone.
Dad remembers his daughter is a teacher,
and that she wants to be everything he was
to her,
to others,because he taught her all her life.
She wants to remember the people,
it's the people that matter,
it's the people she wants to look at,
not herself.
Still, he reminds her of who he's helped shaped her to be,
and she feels like herself again,
today, even if for a minute, even if she forgets,
he'll remind her again in his own way.