Where This Deadly Thing Brings Great Change (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

My love, in these days I severely miss you so
where this lock-down requires great patience,
I pray you and humanity do God's love know
that He makes this time full of new resilience.

Where we are facing an invisible deadly enemy
life changes completely from how it had been,
while also nature changes in its own secrecy
where the first impact of this autumn is seen.

Where this deadly thing brings great change,
I do wonder what comes after days of waiting,
if it's something great or does it life rearrange
and what prospects are people anticipating?

I know that this binds you much closer to me
and that people after the lock-down find liberty.

[Poet's note:The seasons in the Southern Hemisphere of the earth are opposite to those in the Northern Hemisphere.]
© Gert Strydom