I Am Thinking Of You Tonight Poem by Gert Strydom

Some people avoid contact with anyone else
as they are scared of being deeply hurt again
but I am not against going right to the start
to correct the things that brings pain to the heart.
Sometimes love asks for more than people are willing to give
and life changes from what it had been before
but I know intimately knowing you is really to live
and broken people I have seen who do not smile anymore,
they are afraid to hope and to trust and to expect,
to take chances on that which could change life
and constantly from contact they are turning away,
they go lonely to bed excepting life to stay as it is.
I know you are reading deeply in my poetic art
and I know that your love is sincere and true,
where being apart is not an issue of the heart
and through a life of misery you have stuck like glue.
To me you are my precious angel of light
and I am longing for you tonight.