The Person And Image Of You (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Ingrid Jonker)

In the eyes and on the face of each woman
memories come of our times together,
sirens in the street echo with your name,
everywhere I always see impressions of you.
Constantly you climb into my heart from the memories,
in paintings and portraits you are framed
and it's as everything everywhere do tell about our love,
as if constantly I am seeing you everywhere,
against lamp-post where ever I come I see posters,
in news reports there are serious darkness,
as if evil does constantly bring the end nearer,
there is a buzzing din of people in the street
but in all of this only you do remain with meaning
where you do live with me in every beautiful memory.

[Reference:"Op alle gesigte" (On all faces)by Ingrid Jonker.]