A Valentine's Day Poem

A Valentine's Day Poem
(in authentic Hallmark alternative rhyming couplets!)

once i wore the fading dawn
and you would rest upon my pit
wet words lashed together to seal a storm
soon to break, to batter, to rip

i often wonder (in statistics and numbers)
the price of accumulated tears
the toll of half slumber
the net worth of stiffling fears

though... i no longer wish it prettier
echoed destruction is not selective, sure
but reassuringly drippy and full of scenes bawdier
kindness held tighter, hiccups soothed with more

time neatens
pea soup parts
and i remain
glad in (my) heart