You Are Beautiful (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to D. P. M. Botes)

You are beautiful and every person spots it,
know about your garden and they do admire you,
the neighbourhood-watch that lonely do protect the streets
cannot wait to day and night look at you
but for you there is no truth in this
while you read the newspaper or watch television
and you think it's only something that others and I do fabricate,
while you look at the messages on Facebook,
think that every other man wants to misuse you,
even the old men to who you do provide food
who from distress use your welfare
want to share their time and company with you.
and you are far past being lovely
like a Dorcas do follow the ways of God.

[References:"Jy is mooi" (You are pretty)by D. P. M. Botes. Acts 9: 36.]

© Gert Strydom