It's An Honour To Call You My Wife Poem by Gert Strydom

(For Daleen)

Above all you are charitable to others,
others in need is in your will
and it's as if you want to embrace the whole world,

even out of our food cabinet you act generous
but in reality you do not waste a moment.
Above all you are charitable to others,

you view everyone as repairable and I as broken,
it breaks you heart when people are extradited and have to beg
and it's as if you want to embrace the whole world

but always your decisions are sensible,
from your childhood precaution has been drilled in to you.
Above all you are charitable to others,

you look at your fellow man with great mercy,
you hasten near when someone screams from pain
and it's as if you want to embrace the whole world

but always your actions are effective,
you smile at times perplexed when without cause people do you jeer..
Above all you are charitable to others,
and it's as if you want to embrace the whole world.
© Gert Strydom