Love Note

Lunchbox Love Note

by Kenn Nesbitt

Inside my lunch to my surprise

a perfect heart-shaped love note lies.

The outside says, "Will you be mine?"

and, "Will you be my valentine?"

I take it out and wonder who

would want to tell me "I love you."

Perhaps a girl who's much too shy

to hand it to me eye to eye.

Or maybe it was sweetly penned

in private by a secret friend

Who found my lunchbox sitting by

and slid the note in on the sly.

Oh, I'd be thrilled it were Jo, 

the cute one on the second row.

Or could it be from Jennifer:

Has she found out I'm sweet on her?

My mind's abuzz, my shoulders tense.

I need no more of this suspense.

My stomach lurching in my throat,

I open up my little note.

Then Wham! as if

it were a bomb, 

inside it reads,

"I love you-Mom."

This is a cute, little poem I found in search of something for our church bulletin last Mother's Day.
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Until Next Time,