The Black Widow

As I watch her spinning the web, I sense lonliness

 

For she was born to be alone, never to taste  true love

 

Her children divorce her, solitude becomes her only friend

 

Alone in this cruel world, she dreams of death

 

She is feared, yet she commands respect

 

Only the urge to reproduce keeps her alive,

and the urge is strong now

 

A new lover aproaches with caution,sensing danger, fearing death

 

No return now ,the ritual has begun, two become one

 

Once again she recieves the seed of life

 

Her fangs pierce his flesh with deadly venom,

For he will be her supper

 

She screams out ,knowing she must return to the hollow life, she knows well

 

A queen in her own world with no king by her side

 

The Black Widow

 

D.J.Dodsworth