The Ecstasy Poem by Gert Strydom

(after John Donne)

From the start although it had been
great ecstasy and our loving
had been better than anything and we were keen,
we had a deep understanding

and although it were at times gentle and powerfully severe,
the fun and joy and moment’s bliss was unperplex
while nothing did with the loving interfere,
we both knew that it had been much greater than just sex

while our hands, fingers and bodies did intertwine
and for long moments
in all things, in intimacy you were mine;
there were some elements

of a different thing
of a principle, of love a greater understanding.

[Reference: “The ecstasy” by John Donne.]