Last year me and my class were away of Valentine's Day, on a long train ride, if I remember corectly. At midnight we all got up and passed around sweet nothings. I have no romantic affiliation with anyone in my year, but I was pursuaded to give a card to one of the girls, who had been ill. It read "Roses are Red, Blue is the Sea, This wasn't my idea, so don't blame Me". She took it in good taste (knowing that every other guy in the class was crazy for her). That's the only Valentine's Card I've ever made.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller