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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399973" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To You Whom I Love More Than Myself (Sonnet Redoublé)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You to whom my feelings are obvious, <br>may God guide you<br>(even if I am being presumptuous) <br>through every day, keeping you true, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in everything grant all that’s good, <br>make you sure<br>in every day, temper every mood<br>great and pure</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and may He be in everything<br>that you put your hand to, <br>giving His greatest blessing, <br>may you be excelling in all that you do; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">once I saw you jolly and free, <br>I saw you long-legged wading into the sea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw you long-legged wading into the sea<br>the epitome of youthfulness, <br>with no frivolity <br>and you were deadly serious without meekness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">entering as if approaching a holy living thing<br>leaving the shallows you were going in deep<br>and it was if you were searching for something, <br>something from the deep beyond that you could keep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and not going to plunder, but were hunting for a holy relic<br>something with great wonder, <br>not to hang around your neck like a charm or some garlic<br>not made by man, or from the elements like thunder: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched you searching for something beyond man’s affairs, <br>from our lounge chairs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From our lounge chairs<br>across from the fireplace<br>there was passion on your face<br>and it was sweet sincerity without putting on airs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where we were living out our lives, our own affairs<br>with depth and sweetness in every embrace<br>with love and true grace<br>in the presence of the One from upstairs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the firelight sparkled in your hair<br>while outside it sieved down rain<br>with a crimson glare and you thought we were being stalked, <br>with something reflecting against the windowpane<br>and on the other side something was there; <br>we went out and we walked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We went out and we walked<br>along the lane from oak tree to oak tree<br>and holding hands we talked<br>and as far as we could see</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the lane ran right into town, <br>on the little knoll, were only you and I<br>and we walked down, <br>were in love and free and above us the sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that spring <br>you had blossoms in your hair, <br>everything was flowering<br>and you were past beautiful fair </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we were looking at some freshly painted art, <br>at the restaurant where we greeted to part</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the restaurant we greeted to part<br>and there was something weird, something touching<br>as again to you, I had lost my heart<br>and it was totally amazing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I am still trying to think<br>what had happened with our goodbyes? <br>At what had happened with our last drink? <br>With your burning, aching-bright sea green eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still love slumbers on and you have been gone<br>for more than twenty years<br>as the true one<br>and I have cried so many tears</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you broke my heart, <br>you were my first sweetheart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were my first sweetheart<br>astonishing beautiful and gay, <br>I had feelings that we would never part<br>that we had something that could not pass away, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">while we walked up into the hill<br>on a small track meandering, <br>you following out of love and freewill<br>and a gentle breeze was whispering</div><div style="margin:10px 0">through the trees in the wood<br>and the forest had a great smell<br>and life was great, far better than good<br>and everything was far better than well</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while you loved me gaily, <br>there was sweet serenity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was sweet serenity, <br>at a rock ledge<br>the feeling of being totally free<br>and we were almost right on the edge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and passion flared up between you and me.<br>When I found a disa, a wild orchid, <br>you were utterly pretty<br>and the flower’s beauty was quite vivid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">being deeply blue hued<br>and I gave the flower to you and we were together<br>your eyes glimmered true<br>and that moment could have lasted forever, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we waited until late saw a white dove; <br>there was a golden moon in the sky, my love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a golden moon in the sky, my love<br>and the wind was blowing again<br>with sparkling stars in the sky above<br>and later there might have been some rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are far apart, my love, <br>with more than a thousand miles in between<br>but in my heart’s alcove<br>like you another has never been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not know how the night looks, my love, <br>in the place that you call home<br>if you also hear the cooing of a dove, <br>as tonight we are both alone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and somehow my heart is full of pain, <br>I am wondering if I could do it all again? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am wondering if I could do it all again<br>visit you like I did then, <br>motorbike to you in the rain, <br>bringing you flowers from a glen? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through other relationships<br>that has brought an own meaning<br>my life have gone with rises and dips<br>like it did from the very beginning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now it’s somewhat strange<br>to know you and not to know you at all<br>and our lives are different as if rearranged, <br>in things big and small</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but we can make it up in many ways, <br>even if we are absent for days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>X</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even if we are absent for days, <br>for weeks or months without end<br>and your loving rays<br>that folds over me becomes spend, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">even if destiny twist our lives<br>or even a demon’s rage<br>is all that nature gives<br>and destruction be our wage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then still in faith, truth and trust<br>our love can conquer time and space, <br>past this world of stone and dust, <br>past the abilities of the human race</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with feelings finding a way to pave, <br>taking a honeymoon, being brave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XI </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taking a honeymoon, being brave<br>driving somewhere up through the hills, <br>while for each other we still crave<br>experiencing new things and many thrills</div><div style="margin:10px 0">might turn things between us back<br>to what it was supposed to be<br>if to our lives we find a new track<br>where you share your life with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time have swept past much too fast<br>while between us remain great memories<br>and I know we cannot relive the past, <br>turn back time, which feels almost like centuries</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and maybe your feelings are somewhat wavering, <br>what’s in the remembering? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>XII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What’s in the remembering, <br>about the first passionate kiss, <br>about the first time in bliss, <br>about every single thing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that we were doing<br>about feelings that we could not dismiss, <br>that the university tried to make their business<br>looking eye to eye in the wooing, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but then we were aflame<br>with something much more <br>than passion something with sincerity<br>that hit to the heart, went to the centre core<br>made us explore the intricacies of love, <br>but at a time I thought you did not like me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>XIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But at a time I thought you did not like me<br>while you looked at me in a strange way<br>and I was more in love than it suited me to say, <br>to myself I promised to let you be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when at your car we met and you set you long hair free<br>and I wanted to walk out of your life and away<br>on that particular day<br>but sparks in your eyes I did see</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I realised how much I had misread you<br>before your lips met mine<br>when I was totally charmed<br>and the bliss was remarkable and true, <br>while lips were touching with something divine, <br>never was I so overwhelmed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>XIV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never was I so overwhelmed<br>with love so sincere, so complete<br>and my eyes, body, heart confirmed<br>my feelings when we did meet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and your face did glow<br>as if you had experienced the same thing<br>and then I did not know<br>if it was a curse or a blessing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when I lost you the sheer pain<br>of how much I missed you, wanted to kiss you<br>made me think that I would not love again, <br>turned my whole world to being blue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but here we are again the two of us, <br>you to whom my feelings are obvious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You to whom my feelings are obvious, <br>I saw you long-legged wading into the sea, <br>from our lounge chairs<br>we went out and we walked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the restaurant we greeted to part, <br>you were my first sweetheart, <br>there was sweet serenity, <br>there was a golden moon in the sky, my love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am wondering if I could do it all again, <br>even if we are absent for days, <br>taking a honeymoon, being brave, <br>what’s in the remembering? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But at a time I thought you did not like me, <br>never was I so overwhelmed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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You to whom my feelings are obvious, 
may God guide you
(even if I am being presumptuous) 
through every day, keeping you true, 

in everything grant all that’s good, 
make you sure
in every day, temper every mood
great and pure

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