Nothing Can Make A Day Last Longer Poem by Gert Strydom

Nothing can make
a day last longer
but being in love
with the sun.

I long to live
in Cape Town
when it’s summer time,

where at eight
the sun still hangs high
as it did at three

but in winter
when the chill sets in
give my Pretoria to me

and then you can have
your Mediterranean climate
with intermittent rain

and north of the Magaliesberg
I will bask in the sun
and look at a blue sky

unless you invite me
to your lair
and we share
a Cape winter there.