Love Is Not Enough Poem by Gert Strydom

You did say that love
sometimes is not enough

as if by destiny, words and acts
in something it lacks

whenever for a time we were separate
when words and acts I experienced as hate

and yet love is the only thing
that brings joy to living

and in its act of the divine
freedom from sin is yours and mine

and the greatest true expression is this
is how divine selfless God's love is

but after you did declare our relationship null and void
what was left of our marriage is destroyed,

yet now where from each other we are gone
you are the one who says that love still does live on

and this brings me to remembering
every summer and spring

where together we did the gardening,
together prepared food and did almost everything

and while this was how life was
great times together did pass

while after church together through the streets we did walk
did look at flowers and with each other did constantly talk,

together at times did catch a nap and more
and we did each other truly adore,

while for an honorarium you were working five days a week
(for less than minimum wage) together the Lord we did seek

but then the head elder, doctor, at church said the Sabbath is not
a day of rest and I contested this and for it great trouble I got

and he financed the Butler park hobo ministries outreach scheme,
made sure that you were involved in it as the main member of the team

and far too busy with the things of the church you did become,
together we did not any time spent while you were almost never at home,

even came home at eleven o'clock on a Saturday night
when to poor people he did sent you out as if it was his right

and from all of this I do realise it's what you do with love that does affect it,
if it does grow or do wither and eventually die bit by tiny bit,

that faith and hope and the reasons for living are all a part
of love which is the core engine of the heart.