If In The Early Autumn (Refrain Stanza) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Emily Dickinson, after Lina Spies)

If in the early autumn you do come to me
then days of summer it will again be.
I am lonely in everything that I do
when for months I do wait on you
and stupid I am with love constantly
as I long for things to be as it was
while almost in a moment weeks do pass,
but when on a whim you do come suddenly
then days of summer it will again be.

[References:"If you were coming in the fall" by Emily Dickinson."Wie die verlange ken" (Knowing the longing)by Lina Spies.]