To Be A Explorer Poem by Gert Strydom

No other man
can ever feel,
like I do feel about you

and the things between us
is so special and unique
that nowhere else it is just like this.

If not I would have known,
would have heard somewhere
or someone would have told me

how it is to be an explorer,
would have told precisely how it feels
to have new experiences constantly

with a new coast laying
to starboard and how it is
to experience new adventures all of the time,

to experience the swelling breaking sea
that tears at life and brings changes
and how it is to discover a new unknown continent

and the things that are between you and me
causes me to constantly
want to sail through your waters

to the harbour where I can hide
against the storms,
and I want to spend a lifetime with you

when the sea rushes storm-strong
and the waves are crushing down
and also when the water lays mirror smooth and calm.