In The Region Of My Great Longing (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, in answer to Ingrid Jonker)

In the mirror image, the reflection, of glass
of my memories I do look back at many hours,
where I do notice your sunny eyes just as they were
where you are still wandering among the walls of my thoughts
where your humanity and your caracther are holy to me
but in the region of my great longing
the twilights, the clouds and fog do hang
where the sun is setting against my hearts mountain walls
as pain had at a time cleave open valleys,
but more real is your beautiful face
as we had at a time promised love to each other
and it had been very intense and intimate
where you do look through the windows into my soul
and half confused I am still kneeling at your feet.

[Reference:"Van ‘n skilder" (Of a painter)by Ingrid Jonker.]

© Gert Strydom