Where We Face The Trials Both Together And Alone (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

Although in our love for each other we are one
yet separate as persons the two of us do remain,
where we face the trials both together and alone
we live through times of joy and sadness and pain,

yet we view each other sincerely in truth and respect
and in the darkness we become one in the time of night
where being two persons brings to us the loving effect
while we know each other in times of bliss and delight

where I do only wish to your praises with others to be
where married in sincerity you do not carry my name
while in true kindness and with words you honour me
where in this more than love for each other we do claim

and our love although true do much further than feelings go
where in my heart of your loveliness and kindness I do know.

© Gert Strydom