Two Worlds Apart (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize, after W. E. G. Louw, after N. P. van Wyk Louw)

High above an aeroplane flies past
that does cut the room's window in two
with a great distance between here and there
that does get our lives into different places
and you and my worlds are from each other apart
with right here I and there above you
who are looking at each other
with you going away to Cape Town and in Springs
and our two worlds do fall apart
without any kind of pain or sorrow
because our lives do work like this
although you do love me and you are in my heart
and it's a hell of a thing to woo over a distance
and longing does already lie at the surface in me.

[References: "Voël" (Bird)by W. E. G. Louw."Die byteltjie" (The small chisel)by N. P. van Wyk Louw.]

© Gert Strydom