While Here The Lovely Summer Is Now Ending (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

You do bring me a true kind of felicity
and this I know is true and sincere love,
where you do now live separate from me
and our love no one can from us remove,

while here the lovely summer is now ending,
where autumn has a milder heat upon the noon,
still the love between us is something existing
in this season and in life winter will come soon.

Hope waits upon love that remains at its prime
when the cooler shorter days are far less gay,
where in youth and in older age it has its time,
whilst it do never at any time decline or decay:

what great wonders do you still to me do,
when in company I am together with you.

© Gert Strydom