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WHEN VALENTIN WORE CHAINS
<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>How many remember</p><p>that before love wore perfume</p><p>it wore chains</p><p><br/></p><p>Before love exchange roses it took a soul from a courageous body</p><p><br/></p><p>Before roses opened their petals</p><p>a grave opened its mouth</p><p><br/></p><p>We speak of Valentine as a season</p><p>but it began as a sentence</p><p><br/></p><p>Saint Valentine</p><p>was not a merchant of cards</p><p>He was a messenger of covenant</p><p><br/></p><p>In the reign of Claudius II, Gothcus of Roman Empire </p><p><br/></p><p>when power declared</p><p>that soldiers must not marry</p><p>because attachment weakens the sword</p><p>Valentine answered with quiet defiance</p><p><br/></p><p>While the empire sharpened spears</p><p>he joined hands</p><p><br/></p><p>While Rome built armies</p><p>he built homes</p><p><br/></p><p>Love became a crime</p><p>and mercy became treason</p><p><br/></p><p>He joined lovers in secret</p><p>like a candle hiding from the wind</p><p>yet still burning</p><p><br/></p><p>Arrested</p><p>Crucified</p><p>condemned</p><p><br/></p><p>History records that he was executed in Rome</p><p>around the year two hundred sixty nine</p><p><br/></p><p>Not for breaking hearts</p><p>but for binding them</p><p><br/></p><p>They tried to silence his voice</p><p>but blood speaks louder in the hearts of leafs than breath</p><p><br/></p><p>They cut down his body</p><p>yet his testimony rose like incense</p><p><br/></p><p>It is said he healed the blind daughter of his jailer</p><p>and before death embraced him</p><p>he signed a letter</p><p>From your Valentine</p><p><br/></p><p>Ink on paper</p><p>but also blood on history</p><p><br/></p><p>Even the day itself</p><p>walked out of the shadows of Lupercalia</p><p>a feast of fertility</p><p>later transformed</p><p>to honor a martyr</p><p><br/></p><p>What was once ritual</p><p>became remembrance</p><p><br/></p><p>As Augustine of Hippo said</p><p>“Love is the beauty of the soul”</p><p><br/></p><p>Valentine guarded that beauty</p><p>with his life</p><p><br/></p><p>Today we exchange gifts</p><p>but forget the gift of courage</p><p><br/></p><p>We celebrate passion</p><p>but forget persecution</p><p><br/></p><p>The rose is red</p><p>because history bled</p><p><br/></p><p>The candle flickers</p><p>like the faith of a man</p><p>who stood before authority</p><p>and refused to bow</p><p><br/></p><p>Love was not soft in his hands</p><p>Love was a shield</p><p><br/></p><p>Love was a sword without iron</p><p><br/></p><p>Love was a rebellion clothed in compassion</p><p><br/></p><p>So when February fourteen arrives</p><p>do not only whisper sweet words</p><p><br/></p><p>Remember the prison walls</p><p><br/></p><p>Remember the execution ground</p><p><br/></p><p>Remember that the feast of love</p><p>was first a funeral of conviction</p><p><br/></p><p>How many people remember</p><p>the great Saint Valentine</p><p>whose death we mark</p><p><br/></p><p>If love costs nothing</p><p>it is decoration</p><p><br/></p><p>If love risks nothing</p><p>it is imitation</p><p><br/></p><p>But love that endures chains</p><p>love that survives death</p><p>love that speaks even after silence</p><p><br/></p><p>That is the love</p><p>Valentine sealed</p><p>with his blood</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Muhammad Mercurial 🖋️</p>
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