With You My Love Did At First Sight Begin (Hybridanelle) Poem by Gert Strydom

Love is a thing that person can fall in
very suddenly and head over heel.
With you my love did at first sight begin,

you did capture my heart, mind and spirit
in the soft-hearted kind way that you are
and more I learned to know you bit by bit,

and more you did my heart and my love win,
on principle and not just on how I do feel.
Love is a thing that person can fall in,

it's more vivid and greater than anything by far,
and much more than just special I view you
in the soft-hearted kind way that you are

but it overwhelms and does feel like sin,
and with you around my world do reel.
With you my love did at first sight begin

but deep at heart love is sincerely true,
where your qualities are real and not an illusion
and much more than just special I view you.

Although with a virus unsteady the world does spin,
love does not flake off and away like paint peel.
Love is a thing that person can fall in

and although death do bring to hope disillusion,
love binds the two of us just closer together,
where your qualities are real and not just an illusion

and although things now are ready-made as in a can of tin,
love sees things through, sticks to and is tough like steel.
With you my love did at first sight begin

but our love is for the worse and for the better,
where daily I witness you in great beauty.
Love binds the two of us just closer together,

at times you make me earnest or as if I am high on gin,
at times you do draw me closer or away do things wheel.
Love is a thing that person can fall in:
with you my love did at first sight begin,

where you are perfect in imperfections to me,
you did capture my heart, mind and spirit
where daily I witness you in great beauty
and more I learned to know you bit by bit.
© Gert Strydom