For My Darling, With New Year (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize)

At night when the darkness folds around me
I do miss you and only beautiful memories do remain
about how our lives at a time had been together
and in dreams I do meet you again.

You are the one that I do love from the beginning,
you have been destined for me
and I do wish every beautiful thing
with joy that is braided into your days,

that the days that do come will have love, bravery
and peace far past the days of old age
as everything that is lovely
I want to say to you

that a year of jubilee will come for you and me,
together we will pass the new horizons.

© Gert Strydom