On This Lovely Hot Bright Autumn-Day (Couplets) Poem by Gert Strydom

From your nice smile and life I am away
on this lovely hot bright autumn-day,

there are rain-clouds in the sky above
and in this lock-down you I do you love

where our own liberty is limited thereby,
where it's so sad that so many people die

from a small invisible kind of thing
that do to whole nations disaster bring

but still life and our love do go on
while this deadly thing isn't yet gone

and no one can travel to and thro
as we did just a few weeks ago

and this way of life may seem odd
but in this I entrust you to God

and every other person in our land
that does against this deadly thing stand.

[Poet's note: The seasons in the Southern Hemisphere of the earth are opposite to those in the Northern Hemisphere.]