Written under the name MADI, with a dictionary-style definition of "valentine" as its subtitle, the poem is about being single on Valentine's Day and refusing to feel sorry for it. The first stanzas run through what the day is supposed to bring: love, smiles, tears, loneliness. Each time the speaker answers with the same flat line, "Can't relate." The repetition feels like a shrug, a way of keeping every emotion at arm's length.
Then the tone shifts. The speaker borrows the shape of the famous "darkest valley" line from Psalm 23, but instead of trusting God to stay close, they say they will "need no one." Behind the smile, a reassuring inner voice insists there's nothing to fear. The closing lines draw a sharp distinction: "I'm not lonely, / I'm alone." The final rhyme, "holy / By my own," turns solitude into something almost sacred. The mood is defiant and self-protective, though the need to keep insisting hints at some hurt underneath.