Will You Know About My Love For You Poem by Gert Strydom

Will you know about my love for you
while you are embraced by another
and how deep betrayal cuts, how difficult it is
to get you out of my heart?

But every day the sun shines in the sky,
the sky stays heavenly blue
and it’s only in dreams and thoughts
that I still see you
and I want you to pass me eternally

to shoot with a pistol at somebody else,
to swear at another as faeces,
to stab somebody else with a knife blade
and break your word to somebody else
and take your indeterminate anger out on someone else

as what I can, I have given
while you were trampling me down
and now I have walked into another life,
but the price you made me pay
and the sacrifices that I have made
for you and your children
was just too big,
so big that life
is still overwhelming with it.