Love Is Much More (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Daleen, after Lord George Gordon Byron)

Love is much more than just desire
it's a gift and blessing out of heaven,
an immortal essence that spreads like fire,
from the immortal to mortal man given,

it takes human words and acts above
mere mortal ideals and human thought,
where this divine principle is called love,
brings relationships to where they aught,

comes with a distinct kind or inner grace,
do it truly, sincerely and vividly express
touches the expressions of the human face,
to a person can bring either more or less,

and this is how you, darling, do make me whole
you do touch the flesh, heart spirit and the soul.

[Reference:"Love" by Lord George Gordon Byron.]