Your Letter Is Beautiful Poem by Gert Strydom

Your letter is beautiful
and tells about things deep in your heart
but what lies between the lines
are unnamed things
that you are saying anyway.

To eagerly I want you
here with me
and it’s as if you
cannot untie time
to make yesterday
today again.

Sometimes you email
and at times I email you
and life takes its course
and like somebody raving
I feel caught in it all

as if there’s always a goodbye
between you and I
and the letter
ends much too quickly.