On The Footsteps Through Life (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Petra Müller)

We exchanged years, innocence and labour
and in love we did spend our times together,
did picture faith, hope and love in our hearts,
did shelter together in a wild cruel world,
others wanted to keep remembering the hunt and the eland
but you and I did watch each other
did see and know the moon and stars
and our trust do still remain into our old age,
you could follow the honey-bird and so find treasures
and more precious than anything you are to me,
for days I waited on the eland and gemsbok
and in God's great mercy both of us are free,
I with only knowledge, energy, a bow and poisonous arrow
and you that do walk along with me mile upon mile.

[Reference:"onderweg 1" (underway 1)by Petra Müller.]

© Gert Strydom