Dido's Farewell Of Aeneas (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Elisabeth Eybers)

Every big and small and intimate gesture,
even my own hankering, every glace has a thirst,
where still I do declare my sincere love to you
and noble kingly and almost holy is your nature
but it's as if righteous ideals are driving you
and through the years you have faced many dangers,
where I am coming to the loneliness from you and your body
and against the pain of separation I am at a lost
where you now have got to leave me,
I am dumbfounded in my best days
where on the shore I am standing alone,
my heart does remain with many painful questions
where at the ship Jupiter is waiting upon you
and red as my own blood the day brakes.

[Reference:"Dido se afskeid" (Dido's farewell)by Elisabeth Eybers.]

© Gert Strydom