While You Are Much More Than Just Dear To Me (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after William Shakespeare)

Where to and about you are written in my poetry
people do about our love and our feelings know
while you are much more than just dear to me,
where I do you as a lovely person in words show.

Where you do dwell in you own kind of excellence,
to me you are truthful, beautiful and very kind,
to other women in my mind you do bring a difference
but to you not all of my verses are in subject confined

as together we do live moment by lovely moment
beautiful, true, kind and sincere you are stated in words
and as such a person in my life you are always present,
where in how I experience life and feelings this accords:

and you and these themes will never from my poetry be gone,
where with you present vividly in my life I do not live alone.

[Reference:"Sonnet 105"Let not my love be called idolatry" by William Shakespeare.]