Thoughtful Valentine

Do I exercise my thoughts enough
Do I think about my thinking
Is it too automatic and watery
Do I have any succinct ideas
About where they originate
These questions themselves
Or what thoughts are worth thinking
And what thoughts decide their value

A piece of music or a painting

Can come close or a death observed

From the safety of my thoughts

Let me go in your stead

Let me bury my I in your you

Whose thoughts awake the dead