I Love You (2) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for my wife, Daleen on 25 February)

I love you to the depth of the most distant reaches of my soul,
in the innocent ways of a child,
to the places where understanding does end,
but also to the intimate need of a grown man.

I love you further than my life does go
and I love you in each day's
simple and complicated experiences

and on this birthday of yours
where we have been together for five years
I wish to love you to the very end of my days.