Searching Poem by Gert Strydom

Until I saw you
I was searching through beautiful faces
experiencing lovely bodies,
personalities
and catching smiles.

There were restaurants and bars,
at times cars
and sometimes little rooms
or big villas,
Jacuzzi’s and soft beds
where my search lead
and I met blondes, burnets,
red heads, auburn girls
of different ages

and I must have thought that
experiences would make me
understand women
a bit better

and that there is somewhere
less complicated
than love
and much greater,

but I was mistaken
when my search ended
and I found you
who could with one look
caress me
and taught me
what it is to love.