Without You (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after George Weideman)

Without you mere moments do change to nothing,
months do change to years where the drought is severe.
you are a part of my daily necessities of life,
you are my fixed fortress when life does leave me perplexed.
Without you I feel unwelcome and an outcast
as if nowhere in life I can fit in,
like in the drought ditches inside a river,
I am washed out like old face-clothes.
Without you my life is a dried out medlar fruit
of which the nature changes to dust,
where no words of acts of mine do anymore make an impact
and useless I do shuffle on in life
but you are like the rain which the redbreast does call,
like the fuchsia that flowers in the winter on the porch.

[Reference:"Sonder jou is my dae leeg" (Without you my days are empty)by George Weideman.]