Intimate, Intense And Sincerely I Do Love You (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Daleen)

Intimate, intense and sincerely I do love you,
you do turn my life and thoughts upside-down.
When I find myself it's you that I do notice
and you make me awake and faint.
When I see you in the morning and at night
in rapture I want to look and stare at you
and sometimes you do not keep hurting words in check,
you are the thief of my heart and my woman full of thunder,
you are my barbet and the one that I do love,
you are my red weaver as you do sing every morning bright,
my dove who coos throughout the night to me,
the one that loves me through all resistance.
You let my heart jump wildly and do drive me mad,
you are the woman who wants to carry me away in tranquillity.