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Lake Valentine exists

but only in this whimsical writer's mind

everyone has a private place of their own

in which they often go

in search of whatever it is that in themselves

they somehow need to find

perhaps I'm wrong

maybe I just don't know

but I am such a person

for all my faults

tenacity still remains

when tempers flair all is forgotten

it seems

but the anger and quite possibly the pain

thats when I need most to get away

and lick my wounds

far from the source of the abusive thorn

back to logic and a place where logic and

judgment can again be reborn

as I cast down the blood soaked rags of

these seriously wounded thoughts

into the serenity of the Lovely Lake Valentine

all becomes well and good

and I stand again to claim the world as mine

optimism blooms to joyously return

and what I before had too conveniently forgotten

once again I came around to relearn.............

(Feb. 9, 1994 am)