A Moment (Couplets) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Loftus Marais)

Over the bed light patches splash down as you pass
outside a huge bush of red roses is behind the glass,

your body is naked and the moment is profound
while you are steaming hot from the bath and you turn around

that I can fasten your brassiere and you smile,
there is electricity when I touch you and you seem fragile,

your neck is bended a little bit,
the hairs rise on your back as I do fasten it,

when I lift your hair at the back and do you kiss
there is something strange in a moment like this,

silently for a while you stand still
do a lovely picture against the window fill

and when to the bathroom I follow you
you say: "it's the little things that you do, "

a tear does sparkle in a green-brown eye
and when I ask why you do cry

you say that you are very happy
and the loveliest woman I do see.

[Reference:"Oggend en jou lyf (twee oomblikke) " (Morning and your body (two moments)by Loftus Marais.]