Together With You Poem by Gert Strydom

Together with you I have experienced
sunny and rainy days,
have lived through many summers, springs

and autumns but now it's the winter of my life

where stripped bare like a skeleton
my branches are in a slumber
still reaching up for the sky

as if another summer with its hot sun will come again

and during this chilly winter rain
that is falling out of season
it's as if it is whispering things,

about the hereafter that will come,

as if it has tidings
and to die on an icy night like this
with no regrets of how life was

would be something simple and tranquil

but then there is much more to life than only this
and I do remember the hours of passion and bliss,
the spring with the flowers awakening

even before my own leaves

but the sad wind does cry through my branches
as if it is howling about previous summer-days
that now is forever lost

in a place from where there is no kind of return

and I want to love you even past the limitations of death,
to be with you in the great everywhere hereafter
but now I do not know if one looses this bond

and with you again throughout eternity I want to be

and only the memories do remain:
in some sunny days full of joy and happiness
and others full of rain, pain and unhappiness

and in the portals of oblivion these memories at a time will be lost

while the darkness do remain
as if there were no happy days and any light,
as if everything do disappear

into the shades of the night

and my flowers and leaves are withering,
my trunk is dried-out
and I wonder will our love will be alive

in a place where perfection does envelop everything?