Even If A Thousand Miles Do Separate Us (Refrain Stanza Sequence) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)
I
Where this loneliness do linger with me,
you I do really want to see
and to greater and deeper love I will myself prepare
although a thousand miles divide us I do greatly care,
loneliness is a dark deep place from where no one can be free
but in my thoughts tonight you are right here,
and it's as if to me you are constantly near,
where I long with you constantly to be,
you I do really want to see.

II
In my heart our love do maintain
and longing do to us bring pain,
where the beauty of memory
do only bring wonderful things to you and me,
Its in thoughts and every urge and thing that we do gain
and I want to go back into your life,
do want to have you as my beloved wife.

[Reference:"Bede" (Prayer)by Elisabeth Eybers.]

© Gert Strydom