I Thought It Was Spring Poem by Gert Strydom

I know Algebra
and Calculus too
and I wish for a world
where there’s only
you and I.

No other persons
to complicate things
and to tell you stories
of their perspectives
which changes like the wind.

Maybe our little zoo
should be there too
as life without children
is a miserable place.

I can calculate
and comprehend things
but cannot understand
your mind and your feelings,
but neither do you

and I thought
that I know your body
and every contour
and line of it,
but I am lost within
and without it

and I didn’t really want
to master you,
but wanted to show
to what depths
love could go
and why I failed
I do not really know

and maybe another
will have more to give
and to take
and I less mistakes to make
and now that you are gone
and I had to go away
my life just drags on

and I miss you more
than I know
how to say.

The shadows draw long
like some words
in your sad songs

and I see clouds
gathering on the horizon
and I wonder
what the new dawn brings

while the wind is filled
with leaves of this autumn
and winter is almost setting in
and I thought it was spring.