A Love Poem by Josephine Collett

You are a gossamer spider web
that entraps me with filaments finely spun
delicate silken circles shining in the sun
I fly into the tendrils of your embrace
not knowing I will never escape

You are a fast flowing stream. I dip
my hands into your fountains grasping
for what is only a dream. I clasp
and the water flows onward beyond my catching
caressing my soul with fleeting temptation

You are the sun that warms my face, light
that floods my mind with consciousness
the touch of a barely dreamed of embrace
knowledge in the depth of your eyes that takes
its own flight

I am lost and found in you, time ceases and takes its
own moments in you. I wait for time and know
the pain of the unfilled hands, the woven web
the stream ever rushing freely, midnight struck
and time moving taking its own flow

copyright Jo 25/12/10