Come In The Spring (Ballade) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, after A. G. Visser)

Come in the spring when the days do stretch out
and see how the roses astound with their colours,
when the dewdrops do cover the leaves
and just after twilight the sun does rise.

Chorus:
Come in the spring to my garden, come my love, do come
do not wait a moment longer
as decades of my life do turn around and around,
that I can tell you how much I do yearn for you.

Come when the gardenia, lavender and jasmine
linger on the morning air,
when the morning glories do open when the sun does appear
when you can catch the deep-blue colour of them.

See the white spider lilies bursting open
and the daylilies that suddenly do fold open,
wait a moment at the irises and do stop,
look at the pure white and yellow and purple and blue.

It's as if moments do hold something holy
with the secrets of the new season
where spring is unfolding in her glory,
as if God is present right here.

The redbreast sings it's longing for the rain,
when inquisitive sparrows frolic in the garden,
the doves do flutter down and coo their songs
and the bakbakiris (bush-shrikes)dart about in the top of the oak.

[Reference:"Rosa Rosarum" (Rose of the roses)by A. G. Visser.]