Deep In My Mind You Are Poised (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

In my mind you are poised for a while,
love to the depth of the heart open-eyed,
tender I meet your glance and see you smile
while you take another pace near to my side.

You are to me in all things the beginning,
you are the one who I love and love again,
and as we love it feels as if we are sinning,
as you do in my soul and heart remain

and now in this locked-down point in time
to save lives everything hangs in between,
it feels as if we both do to each other mime
in a situation where neither of us has been

but still you are to me the end of all things,
the one for who all the doves outside sings.