Gossamer Web

The soft rush of tenderness in your eyes

As you speak of your girls;

Your voice gentle on the phone

To your partner;

I see your aura woven into this

gossamer web -

Holding your heart in place,

Enveloping your mind in an embrace…

Your beautiful, gentle soul shines in your eyes

As you speak of what you regret

And of what you don't -

Your "gamble" with creation

The two pieces of the puzzle that made you whole…

What does it matter then that you did not

Could not

Will not

Experience being

One with another?

I hear your gently sobbing heart

Flooded with regret at things unobserved,

Unnoticed -

Watch that quirky smile hide a pain intense

A pain born of the endless, hopeless search

For the blinding light of love.

Allow your gossamer web to be a warm

Blanket in the cold;

Let it cocoon your soft and tender heart

Against your deepest regrets and desires -

Till age and time can calm the deepest misery,

Till there is no line on the horizon,

With

Or without

you.