Now You Have Been In Love With Me (Quatorzain) Poem by Gert Strydom

(For Daleen, in answer to John Donne)

Now you have been in love with me
for many a day,
you have filled me with tranquillity
have swept my fears away.
Even if change in the morning comes suddenly
still your eyes with the same fire will glow
and nothing will make this beauty slovenly,
will change the person that in you I do know.
Nothing can our marriage untie,
as our feelings are going to the centre core
and even if I set you free nothing will justify
an end and we will love each other even more
as what we now hold precious and true
has an own constancy, an own kind of glue.

[Reference:"Woman's Constancy" by John Donne.]