I Did Sincerely Love Once Again (Sicilian Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Walter Savage Landor)

At a time I though life and destiny turned the wheel,
for each living thing destruction would be placed
as daily through war and peace this life I had faced,
that even love came with its decrees of hardest steel,

yet you changed all of that for me in what I did feel
as from the very start unpredictable my heart raced,
at a time I thought that my feelings was misplaced
and that every married man under the female heel.

The hurt and heartache was not to be retrieved
while I did you and you did me truthfully adore.
By some previous lovely women I had been deceived
and there and then I changed from what I was before
but you acted, spoke and smiled and I believed
as the impact of your love became more and more.

[Reference:You smiled and spoke and I believed" by Walter Savage Landor.]