My Sincere Feelings I Cannot Dismiss (Sicilian Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

From that lovely very first glance of you
I knew our love would be everlastingly
and most kindly you then smiled at me
with sincerity and did what ladies do,

you acted reserved, to your nature true,
in your green-brown eyes I did something see
a glimmer of how a future could be,
and to this day to me you remain true

but now with this lock-down we are apart,
and my sincere feelings I cannot dismiss
as you are in my soul, spirit and heart
and I have never known a time like this:
where death waits if you do the rules thwart,
constantly I do you terribly miss.
© Gert Strydom