Summer Sun Memories (Ballade) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Ingrid Jonker)

A long summer and golden sun memories
that was filled with love I do know of
that does sometimes again jump into my thoughts
and silently, silently with the years you did forget about this.

Chorus:
Like a babbler my dreams echo alone
as there is no answer that comes from an echo
and still I do wonder to where my own road is going
when life do bring pain, at times do bring joy and do astound me

but sometimes lonely I walk back on the tarred road
where the pain and beautiful memories do burn me,
while the future hangs in the distance like a vista
of which no tracts or branching off roads remain.

High the sun sits in the dull-blue memories
where I see your smile in the dull blue recollection,
do remember how my heart did sing to you
while your image do never grow faint

and some times are full of happiness and others full of sorrow
as for years life is cheating me
and some days I do want to remember and others I do want to forget
as years upon years and decades do past me.

[Reference:"Bitterbessie dagbreek" (Bitter-berry daybreak)by Ingrid Jonker.]

© Gert Strydom