Silently You Did Lie Against Me In The Night Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Kleinjan (J. R. L. Van Bruggen))

Silently you did lie against me in the night,
in the silence said very little,

in the darkness there had been a wintry moon,
where in the night-sky the stars did slowly fade,

in mere moments we were forever caught,
as if everything in creation were far away from us,

that moment had been great and inexplicable,
as if no man could it descry.

Silently you did lie against me in the night
in the silence said very little:

when love brought everything to perfection,
while in the distance a star did jump,

where new life in you did sprout,
while as a human and women you did astonish me.

[Reference:"Liefde en dood" (life and death)by Kleinjan (J. R. L. Van Bruggen) .]

© Gert Strydom