Impulse (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Vincent van der Westhuizen)

For you this morning I wanted to do something radical,
I wanted to take you far away from your work and our home,
I wanted to kiss the catastrophe, anger and revolt out of you.
Here we live as lovers far too good neighbourly,
maybe today we can wake-up all of the citizenry,
we could ring the old church-bell thundering at sunrise,
we could cover the town hall's walls with bright red hearts
and do inane things in a jovial mood
or at midnight in the ungodly hour
we can sneak like rascals from place to place,
we can fire off fireworks with glowing radiance
or we can cover shop-windows with paper stars
and when we do meet right in front of the church
you are in my soul, my mind and in my blood.

[Reference:"Impuls" (Impulse)by Vincent van der Westhuizen.]