Stories And Legends Of Heroes (Rubiyat Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

Stories of heroes and heroines we do behold
where through countless ages they are told
of Helen, Phaon, Sappho, Abelard and Heloise
whose great love for others were very bold

and yet hardship and pain were where they went
but you and I do deem our love true and to be different
but our own tales by others may at a time be told
when our lives are passed and our time is spent

where to live life to it's very fullest we do dare
for another person in the here and now do truly care,
do try to act in the very right kind of way
in times of sorrow, happiness, wealth and despair

as love is something that makes us greater still
or in its own silent kind of way us it may kill.

© Gert Strydom