Falling in Love – Poetry by Joyce Anderson

 Let us fall in love slowly
 turning our lives gently
 as pages in a cherished book.
 Let us not betray
 the slightest punctuation
 or rhythm of thought.
 Let us take time to love, 
 to leisurely bathe in Nereid depths
 of clear-eyed emotion . . .
 tracing the symmetry of our passion 
 across well-thumbed pages
 read again and again 
 to the cadence of our hearts.
 I am a willing Scheherazade
 to your inquisitive King
 and there is time I say —
 in the artistry of experience,
 the beauty of chaptered continuance,
 the unwritten epilogue —
 to fall in love slowly, 
 to slowly fall in love.
                          Jaka