Far Too Many Tears Poem by Gert Strydom

Far too many tears
were shed,
fell in the solitary years
as if they had been bled.

Loneliness encompassed me
and I knew that from loving you
I would never be free
and was wondering if my feelings were being true,

while even every sunny day
was turned into being blue,
as if my life had been swept away
by a stormy tide that was bursting through

while from me you were gone
and in life I only soldiered on.