I Wish I Did Tell You Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Daleen)

I wish I did tell you that nobody is like you,
you are in my soul, spirit, flesh, and heart and in my mind
each word and act of you does carry great meaning,
that you are truly lovely and far past pretty to me
so soft, entrusting and utterly intimate you take my hand.

Now a virus comes silently as if it's a secret for everyone
and no human can remain uninfected and are to it immune,
where locked-down away from you I miss you terribly.
I wish I did tell you

that love stays eternally far past the other side of life,
in the past, present and future everything carries meaning,
where life is only a struggle against the powers of darkness,
that I love you through every big and small event
and in all places and times you do to me remain the right person,
I wish I did tell you...
© Gert Strydom