Missing Valentine's Day

It isn't like that time

When I left for three weeks

And you all alone

With just a few of the kids

For Thanksgiving

Or the time I left again

And the delayed flight

Should have been a sign

Telling me to turn around

Because your sister had passed

And I thought it would be ok

You'd be busy with your family stuff

I'd be in the way

But instead

The correct answer

Is you needed my shoulder

And my helping hand

And me not to be selfish

Those other ones were way worse

And we did get to have our time

But I am still sorry

You have to spend Valentine's alone

Especially since this isn't the first time

That I have left

To the other side of the world

Especially since 

You have to babysit my mother

Probably best to not tell her

She will want to eat all of your candy

And play the lonely widow card

But to put this in a better light

You now have leverage

A more horrible set of crimes

Committed by me

How I left you alone again

Even if it is a made up holiday

Even if we would have just sat in bed

Because who has time for that

On a Tuesday night

But still

This is just to say

I'm sorry I left again

And I hope this apology

Buys me some clemency

For this poor dumb traveler

And his inability

To read a calendar

His failure 

To put you always first