I Hope You To Be As A Darling Mine (Sicilian Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, in answer to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin)

I hope you to be as a darling mine
where now with you it's as if I am bound:
of my words you do understand each sound,
where destiny did between us draw a line.

Of your true love I find sign upon sign
where I see great beauty from sky to the ground
of sincere love everywhere tokens to be found,
where all life seems greater than only fine.

It seems I do your feelings truly awake
in whatever ways that life do with us turn.
I try you still closer to me to make
even if life and its reality do me burn,
with you into a new life to partake
do long to your heart and soul to return.

[Reference: "Under the blue skies" by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Poet's note I am quoting his great poem right here:


"Under the blue skies" by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

"Under the blue skies of her native land
She languished and began to fade...
Until surely there flew without a sound
Above me, her young shade.
But there stretches between us an uncrossable line;
In vain my feelings I tried to awaken.
The lips that brought the news were made of stone,
And I listened like a stone, unshaken.
So this is she for whom my soul once burned
In the tense and heavy fire,
Obsessed, exhausted, driven out of my mind
By tenderness and desire!
Where are the torments? Where is love? Alas!
For the unreturning days'
Sweet memory and for the poor credulous
Shade, I find no lament, no tears."]