To Love You Is To Play With Fire (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Joan Hambidge)

To love you intensive, sincerely and intimate
is to dare a chance to burn to ashes,
it's an act of the heart not of the mind,
it is something that I can only say in words,
Where now you do lie so very deep in my words
in life you do take me day after day by the hand,
you want to love me to the other side of life
without knowing what is lying ahead.
With you every day does becomes a new big adventure
and even if you are at times as mysterious as the wind,
you do know my joy, happiness and my heartache and grief,
you are in my daily existence in every second and every hour
and still I have faith and trust in you like a child,
you do adore me to the depth of your heart.

[Reference: "Smoke gets in your eyes" by Joan Hambidge.]