To Me You Do Remain (Rubiyat Sonnet)

(for Annelize)

To me you do remain a mystery
and yet the perfect woman to me,
the one I understand and do not,
in whose eyes I do myself see,

the one whom to touch I do long
whose name to me is like a song,
in touching it does ask for more
and this love cannot be wrong

as though decades you do remain
as the one that brings joy and pain
as the one whom I do always love
and in my mind your image I do retain

to drown in you in my mind, body and soul
as you do complete me and make me whole.

© Gert Strydom