Why Do I Love Thee, Rudi? Poem by Louise Tredoux

Because you share my mind -
two minds in unison - because
I need not turn down my light -
don a burka hiding the luminous
thoughts racing through my head

Two minds in unison - physical
unification but a symbol of spiritual
unity, because when you ask me -
“What do you think? ” - You do not
turn away when I tell you -

“Stories from the Bible that have been
running through my mind since I was
small” - You don’t frown and say you
don’t want to know - making me flee
into a fantasy of nightly delight

Offering me space to be me, a special
soul to release my spirit from anxiety
a light being to make me whole - you
are the other half of my soul, that is why
I love you Rudi and always will, I shall

Keep you in reality, my Rudi, and if you
are not accessible, I shall dream of you
for eternity, I shall always do…