(Your) Love Will Hold Me

(your) love

will hold me

with the tenderness of

a single strand of spider web

hanging between two twigs.

(your) love

will cocoon me

with the gentle caress

of tiny pearls of dew

nestled on spider silk

glistening in the tentative morning sun.

(your) love

will surround me

with its fleeting,

intangible omnipresence

like the early fog cloaks the

sleepy landscape on a cold

winter morning.

Endlessly tender, fleeting, fragile

and yet stronger than anything in this world.

(your) love

will light the way for me

from-to the heart of hearts

guiding my steps through the

slowly lifting mist into the unknown.

(your) love

will guide me

like a falling star

shooting across the horizon

forever mysterious

forever a gift.

December 2020