Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; it is the rust we value, not the gold

White Widow

Long ago star crossed lovers were torn apart

Into the woods, he with bow then her with torch

Saplings grew and fell; her memories withered away

Searching for love lost without a face nor a name

Yet her feet wandered on trickling as a brook

Longing for his touch as the waves do for the moon

If you wish to live, resist temptation’s kiss

The White Widow watches in the distance

Taste her sweet venom at your risk

Beware of her bitter sea of loneliness

The White Widow is watching you

If you happen on her path and hear the rhythm of the woods

Keep your ears keen for the sudden stillness that ensues

An interlude in the quivering of the leaves

Though a wind wafts sweet honeysuckle on the breeze

Ahead where the light plays amongst the branches

There is she aglow, skin luminescent as jasmine

Her hyacinth hair falling to her feet

A weary wanderer in transient mortality

Oh how fair a maiden

Though painful stay away

Enchanting her words

When you hear her say

Without you I cannot die

So on this Earth I roam

I need your arms for rest

How long I’ve been alone

Without a future

Without a past

My life’s an endless quest

Lay with me

Embrace me in our death

If you wish to live, resist temptation’s kiss

The White Widow beckons in the distance

Taste her sweet venom at your risk

Beware of her bitter sea of loneliness

The White Widow calls to you

Many men claim the power to resist the white widow’s gaze

So was it love or was it lust that drove them to the forest’s grave

The White Widow will give you all she is

And then pull you under

Beware

-by mlm