Around Me The World Does Constantly Change (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Daleen)

Around me the world does constantly change
while science build things with heartless might,
yet in this world there is nothing truly strange,
even where secretive people work out of sight,

even if we do the new creations at a time admire
and that which seem into antiquity so very old,
still the same things men and women do desire
that for ages of their hearts has been told,

where at times they do each other betray and defy,
what is happening in the present did also in the past,
in the heart of man does no new great substance lie,
where only true love still is the thing that does last

and that is just how with you I do want it now to be,
where you do sincerely, intimately and truly love me.