Autumn Evening Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Breyten Breytenbach)

When the sun sets I wait upon my sweetheart
after office hours
to drive into the yard
from the gym
with the eyes of her car
cutting with searchlights around the corner.

I do embrace and kiss her
when she gets out of the car
while the stars gleam high up in the sky
and I am infatuated by my beloved.

I bring a hand full of flowers
of which the fragrances hang glorious around us
to my love
while the big old yellow moon
scrutinize us from the heaven.

[Reference: "herfsaand" (Autumn Evening) by Breyten Breytenbach]