I Do Have A Picture Of You (English Sonnet)

(for Annelize)

I do have a picture of you in my mind
where you do me truly deeply understand
where you are sunny, happy and kind
to me the most wonderful woman in the land.

I wish you into my day from first light
as for years I have been under your spell,
I do long after you right through the night
as without you my life is a kind of hell,

and daily I do come to love you much more
as you have changed my life from what it was,
life is different since each other we do adore,
far too slowly without you a day does pass

and this great abundant summer I hardly see
while you are away so very far from me.

© Gert Strydom