From The Time I Know You Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize)

From the time I know you my feelings are sincere and heartfelt,
with you I was for years wrong but now I am right
and I want to follow each yearning to its intensity,
want to reconcile your humanity with you being mine,
where constantly you have got special value for me,
where your voice brings me joy,
for you alone my heart sings a song of praise
where from before I am attached to you,
with you I was for years wrong but now I am right.