Where Nothing Can Replace You In My Life (Couplets) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

This lock-down where we now are apart
let me take images from the heart

that brings you constantly right here to me
and this is not separation in how our lives are to be.

In my thoughts are your laughter and every glance
as measures against that which does loneliness enhance

and I know every line of your lovely face,
how you do move with an own kind of grace,

where these strange days endlessly keep coming
and I am amazed by the deadliness of a viral thing,

where nothing can replace you in my life
and I do long for you presence, my dearest wife,

where the government's plans do proceed
and we do truly each other's presence need

and where the yesterdays were full of joy,
today there is a virus that does destroy.

More infected people the government do reveal,
where I fill my time in order with life to deal.

Unanswered remains why the virus did not in China stay
where over the world it does kill people day by day

and continually I pray for you and to keep good faith,
where I entrust you to God to keep you safe

and what more can I say than that I do really miss you
that life without you is empty in how I live and in what I do.

[Reference: "Sonnet:Die vreemde dae wat ons twee apart" (Sonnet: The strange days that we two apart" by Elisabeth Eybers.]
© Gert Strydom