For Moments You Stand Motionless (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Herman Gorter)

For moments you stand silent before me
and I want to tell you about the depth of my love
but do not know how to put it in the right words,
how to find something that will last for us eternally,
my thoughts are free from the correct words
and all of my words do suddenly dry up when I do phone you,
where we do live somewhere between heaven and hell
and still the thing that is love somehow we do get right.
Your eyes, nose, mouth and face is wonderfully beautiful
but transparent like water becomes whatever I do say,
where I do not know what my love can bring to you
and everything circles out as if I do drop a stone in the water
with the effect that sometimes I wonder what does lie in words
and my sincere love continually does jump forward.

[Reference:"Gij staat zoo heel, heel stil" (You stand so totally, totally still)by Herman Gorter.]