Rondel For The One That I Love Poem by Gert Strydom

(After Geoffrey Chaucer)

There is at times beauty in the way you look at me
as if such a glance no other loving man has ever seen
and even your smile is perfectly lovely and serene

but at times from you I do want to be totally free
as if our relationship has never been
There is at times beauty in the way you look at me
as if such a glance no other loving man has ever seen

but to far away places from the hurt I want to flee,
to where the sky, the beach and sea seems tranquil and clean
and yet with no other woman I want to be.
There is at times beauty in the way you look at me
as if such a glance no other loving man has ever seen
and even your smile is perfectly lovely and serene.

[Reference: "Rondel of merciless beauty" by Geoffrey Chaucer. Please note that a line is missing with a reason like in Chaucer's poem.]