Paul Judges - Waiting

It's extraordinary the creatures you can come across in the quieter parts of Yorkshire, England.....

WAITING

I found a nymph’s locket
where I’d expected to find love

and her otter was a gauntlet
not just a simple glove

thrown down in the wilderness
of trees, and fish, and water

inside the nymph’s locket
was a picture like my daughter

but that was many years
before I held my soul mate

and in all those lonely days
all I did was just wait

while the dog otter barked
then a chirp and a whistle

as if his webbed feet
had caught on a thistle

and I always kept the locket
in a very special place

because it held the secret
of my own true love’s face

Paul Judges

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