In My Sorrow I Want To Greet You Tonight Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Paul Éluard)

In my sorrow I want to greet you tonight,
do want to say hello and goodbye to you my sweetheart,
where your eyes full of love do burn constantly,
where mysticism and mystery in darkness hangs around you,
when I glance at your name and sign in the stars above me,
where the pain of my words give stature to you again,
when the power of destiny do again takes us away from each other,
where through love we find each other once more
and your beloved body become a part of me again,
where disillusionment bring us back to each other
and bridges over that which wanted to divide us eternally,
where I am sad before your pretty face
but full of hope are glad to find you once more.

[Reference: "À peine défigurée" by Paul Éluard.]

© Gert Strydom