With Your Bright Presence Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize)

With your bright presence, the sunshine
irradiating from your green-brown eyes,
you can matchlessly define my happiness
and so terribly intimate

is the way that you look at me,
where you lead my thoughts astray
and our lives is a age old story
full of happiness and sadness

in which a man and woman finds each other,
from the time that Adam perceived Eve
and with every shadow falling, every perception
we are both enthralled like a child,
we find something precious, in each small gesture
that makes our hearts sing jolly and overwhelmed.