To Me You Did Suddenly Bring Great Gladness (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

Very early you called this morning,
outside fluttered and cooed a dove,
you caught me with surprise without warning,
remain to eternity forever my love.

To me you did suddenly bring great gladness,
I thought of how more beautiful you now look.
Maybe love is in a way a kind of madness:
something of which a person reads in a book.

So strange, I realize that you do love me
suddenly again all of life seems bright,
as if to anything there is possibility
even if you are away out of sight

and there is now great beauty in all things,
outside a little weaver of its love sings.