You Are Prettier Than Beautiful (Sicilian Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

You are more pretty than beautiful to me,
starlight sparkle within your golden eyes,
in them the depth of your heart daily lies
and I do want to love you past all eternity

but sometimes in them sadness I do see,
something hidden in your sleeping cries.
A brilliant smile await me when you rise,
it's as if you know how the day's going to be.

A holy image lingers on your sweet lovely face
as if God is momentarily present in your heart,
that selfless kind of love in your life I do trace,
we do together pray as we do the morning start,
to you there is an unknown kind of lasting grace:
your lingering kindness set you from others apart.
© Gert Strydom