Gossamer Threads

So here's another poem for you all. Make of it what you will. I shall neither confirm or deny anything. :P

I hope you enjoy!

Gossamer Threads

A spider’s web of romance

So delicate and pure

Yet also incorrigibly tangled

 As we fall and we soar

Each strand is a person

Their love and their life

And my own strand began

 With a husband and wife

For a wonderful girl

So welcoming and kind

Ensured I belonged

Wouldn’t leave me behind

She rekindled my poetry

Which had long dormant lain

Thus helping to place me

And friendships to gain

As we danced in the moonlight

We suddenly knew

Our love for each other

Was real and true

Yet although others saw this

And were happy and hale

Another young man

Enters into my tale

A best friend to her

For many halcyon days

But he loved another

In our crossing of ways

He hugged her good night

Every night for a year

And I never suspected

A deep rooted fear

For his loved one departed

Without a good bye

Vanished from our little world

Fled through the sky

So in order to comfort him

And prevent him from harm

My loved one proposed to him

With elegant charm

Yet he asked my consent

So I willingly stepped aside

And gave them my blessing

As he took away my bride

Their wedding was splendid

As our friends across the world

All gathered together

As the marriage unfurled

We still loved each other

Like the sea tides do ebb

And then another gossamer thread

Wove into our web

She joined our small world

And her love was so strong

For our interests are shared

In books, music and song

And though I still loved the first

I loved her back too

And I filled up with anguish

What was I to do?

Do I go with my heart?

Do I go with my head?

In the end I chose neither

I chose nothing instead.

I would lock down my feelings

On my love I’d not act

For I couldn’t choose one

When the other would react

Though they both said it was nothing

And to be devoted to the other

Though both were so selfless

And their own love they’d smother

I knew that deep down

They would both feel the pain

If one were abandoned

Happiness they’d feign

So they both hid their love

For I knew in the end

I would have to accept them

As only a friend

I wish to return

To the man that she wed

For he now loved another

Who I’ve still left unsaid

This strand in my story

I don’t know much about

And I haven’t a clue

How that strand will turn out

Yet I know that the wedding

It ended. And sadly.

No longer together.

Their time ended badly.

For it put my first love

Through such anguish and loss

She felt so alone

At a terrible cost.

She believed that her friends

Would abandon her just

When she needed them most

As her life turned to dust

Yet her friends they stood by her

And I know she’ll recover

For I’m there for her always

As friend and as lover.

And though I love two

And the two both love me

How this web will turn out

Is a mystery to me.

For that’s still in the future

It all lies ahead

And so does the end

Of my gossamer thread.