Still With Love I Do For You Care 2 Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Alexander Sergeyevich Pus)

Your face, eyes and breath I remember,
I close my eyes and you are right there,
your eyes gleam more gold than just ember
and still with great love for you I do care.

Together now our time seems so fleeting,
you are now the quintessence of womanhood,
I wished for us once more meeting,
you are the essence of all fair and good.

Putting our marriage on hold brought anguish,
I do not know what drove you to do it.
This surreal moment I do now languish
as this vision dissolves bit by bit,

leaving me without you, in a empty life,
with and also without a caring wife.

[Reference: 'A magic moment I remember' by Alexander Sergeyevich Pus.

Poet's note: I am quoting this great poem by Alexander Sergeyevich Pus right here:

'A magic moment I remember' by Alexander Sergeyevich Pus

'A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare
I pray to mute despair and anguish,
To vain the pursuits world esteems,
Long did I hear your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.
Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.
In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me
No one to cry for, live for, love.
Then came a moment of reinessance,
I looked up - you again are there
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare.']
© Gert Strydom