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How much I love you

Only God knows how deep
my feelings for you go
and sometimes it’s difficult
to tell you.

How do you say
that’s how much
I care for you,
if there’s nothing
to measure it against.

Ridiculous it may sound,
but at times
words fail me.
.
It’s you, it’s you that I cherish
are words from somebody else
and for me it’s only singularly you
and no other
that I truly want to love much more.

How can you know
exactly what part of you,
your darling loves
and what causes
somebody to adore you?

Or is it something deeper
and much more
that binds people together
and cause that the I and me and you
together becomes us?

Sometimes you ask me to say
how much I love you
and I wonder against what,
must I measure it for you.

Can anybody somewhere gather
all the water of the sea
and give size and depth to it.

Who can catch the wind
and hang words on it,
or really determine
the extent of the sun
and moon and stars

Where must I find words
to say what the extent is,
of that which lies between us.

All that I know
Is that depth and size
of my feelings for you,
are totally unfantomable.

[Reference: 'Jy kyk my vlak en jy het my lief, Jy kyk my diep en jy het my lief. Ek wil myself opnuut, nuut beding; Dis jou, dis jou, wat ek bemin'. Antjie Krog.]

poem by Gert Strydom
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