Love Poems

'Cause every Valentine's Day needs them...(Paul wrote me one while we were at the Valentine's Symphony!)

The World is Not a Pleasant Place to Be

by Nikki Giovanni

The world is not a pleasant place

to be without

someone to hold and be held by

A river would stop

its flow if only

a stream were there

to receive it

An ocean would never laugh

if clouds weren't there

to kiss her tears

The world is not

a pleasant place to be without

someone