Kiffa Australis Poem by Gert Strydom

From the time that you died
I have looked for your sign
and at times it’s dull and distant,
but now it’s bright
as if you are near
and it’s ruling the night sky.

How tough is it to know
that true love does not perish,
nor fade with time
but lives on
though you are gone.

I have endeared the things
that you loved
and have got new meaning
from life for your sake,
but every thing is hollow
while I live in another time
and place from where you are.

I do not know if your sign
is a token of what destiny holds
or just another omen
of what’s going to unfold
and yet, I feel so near to you
as when you were here
and maybe in the end
every thing will be well.

[Reference: Kiffa Australis (a double star) is the brightest star in the constellation Libra.]