Summer Is Far Greater Than Just Summer (Refrain Stanza) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize)

Everything around us have got their splendid fruit or great beauty
summer is far greater than just summer since you have been with me
where I daily see your passing and your tender lovely footfall
and all of the significance of nature in your passage seems small
while with you and in your company all of my adult life I do wish to be
and these sweet moments that between us linger I wish could last forever
than hard times and separate ways in our lives will come never
as to my life and existence you bring life, love and great tranquillity,
summer is far greater than just summer since you have been with me.