You Were To Me (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)

You were to me more than the light in your eyes,
you did give me hope in my inability.
You were to me more than a smile and laughter,
you were to me the sun in the summer day
and at night you were my hot nurturing,
the angel that brings me nearer to the Lord God.
To me you were the one that does believe me against the world.
You were to me my trust and hope, the light from above.
You were to me the stirring of my heart,
the source of all my joy and all of my sorrow.
You were the one that do really know me,
I did loose and win everything back with you
and still I am madly in love with you
as you are an angel directly from God.

[Reference: "Die geskenk" (The gift)by Elisabeth Eybers.]