Threshold

I invite you to enter!
So why huddle you
In the darkness
Disguised by the bushes?

I welcome you!
Do you fear this house is haunted?
Or think that I designed a trap,
elaborate?

I would ask you, “join me!”
Or do you imagine
I would lock & block the exits
With you ensnared within?

My Love, I am no temptress trained
Too simple & self-doubting, I
Lonely for a friend to talk
Desirous a hand to hold.

So enter please
If only to converse
And share a drink
With me by the warmth of my fire