I Thought That Your Love Did End (Sicilian Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Alexander Sergeyevich Pus)

In life I have thought that your love did end,
while in principle I loved you in my heart,
you wished us from each other apart,
and no time you wanted with me to spend

but I found that love does all things transcend,
it does on the soul and spirit impart,
that in life we all do play a own part,
relationships shatter and others mend,

(you remain through years lovely to me)
desire do not simply come and again go,
the principles of love stay to eternity,
burns with a hidden fire, from inside glow:
I decide how my life and love is to be;
fate has no mercy, it does its will bestow.

[Reference: 'I've lived to see desire vanish' by Alexander Sergeyevich Pus.

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


'I've lived to see desire vanish' by Alexander Sergeyevich Pus

'I've lived to see desire vanish,
With hope I've slowly come to part,
And I am left with only anguish,
The fruit of emptiness at heart.'

'Under the storms of merciless fate,
My worn and withered garland lies--
In sadness, lonesome, I await:
How far away is my demise? '

'Thus, conquered by a tardy frost,
Through gale's whistling and shimmer,
Late, on a naked limb exposed
A lonesome leaf is left to quiver! ... ']
© Gert Strydom