Because You Do Call Me Your Darling (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

My candle burns tonight only for you
as you do take me as your darling
while friends do estrange themselves from me,
where you do still believe in me and trust me,
where others look at me with disdain,
from my circumstances conclude
that friendship should also wane away
and you do still keep me against your heart,
as you are intimately and sincerely in love with me,
do truly know me as a human being and a person
while destiny messes me around
and my prayer for you does tonight carry meaning,
where with love God does dwell in your heart,
your heart beats in my blood and in my chest.