Writer to Her Muse

How can I forget you?

Ah love, each time I try

You vex me just beyond my reach

A phantom butterfly

How casually you slip

Twixt touch and guarded thought

Compelling me with luring lines

To revel in your jot

...so you and I thus dance

A sensual, soulful trip

As resistance and hunger jive

Twixt thought and finger-tip

...and if I beg you go

I feel like I might die

Yet if you stay I’ll ever chase

You; phantom butter-fly

Then you and I must find

A way to synchronize

You, half-rebelicious, kind

And me, your eager prize

I cannot forget you

Darling finagling rue

To chastise you within a poem

Is all that I can do

© Janet~