On All Sides Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Jacques Prévert)

On the table there are apples, pears and peaches in a basket,
your dress hangs over the chair, your shoes are kicked-out over the floor,
and outside it's icy as if this winter eats through everything
but in the bed it's hot and cosy between you and me,
where you and I know truly that we do live together,
while everything in the night's chilliness tranquilly do rest around us.

[Reference: "Alicante" by Jacques Prévert.]

© Gert Strydom