Forever: If You Are Gratified Poem by Gert Strydom

If you are gratified
to be with me, at my side,
have the same feelings in your heart
and from me do not want to part

then I take an holy oath and swear
to love you until my bones lie bare
to make with you sweet memories
even if like Abélard and Heloïse

you are torn away from me,
part of you forever I will be
in every cell, in every breath
past life and death

and then we will be one
even when everything else is gone.