This Time Has Brought Great Clarity (Sicilian Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

From me locked-down you are miles away,
I miss you much more than you can know,
I wish God His protection on you to bestow
while I long for you and also that I may

be so close to you on each sunny day,
while everywhere tears like rivers do flow
as death and devastation on do go
and forever true to you I do stay,

where this time has brought great clarity
in that which is most important in life,
where you are the most important to me
and that we falter in what we do for strive,
that life is temporal and it does go fleetingly
and that you are much more than just a wife.