You Come To Me (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Christina Georgina Rossetti)

You come to me during the night
at day are present in my greatest fears,
as a part of each secret dream's delight
but daily do bring me heartache and tears.

My dreams are now both bitter and sweet
an enchanted piece of the paradise
where breath to each other's breath we meet
and brim-full is the love in your eyes.

Each morning reality is back with me
and day-by-day without you I live life
without knowing how long this is to be
where you are dear and still remain my wife

but do not want anything from me to know
and empty my days do on their way go.

[Reference: "Echo" by Christina Georgina Rossetti]
© Gert Strydom