Simple Flowers (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize)

Humble simple words
I want to bring barefoot to you,
do want to paint them as the words out of my heart,
as flowers with a unique deep colour,
that you can look again and again at them,
that you can smell the impact of my words
in your ears, your memory and brain,
do know that it's a sign of love
and nothing is dark about them
where they are waiting on the sunshine
of gleaming eyes,
yearn for a single smile
as words that I have been planting for years
in the hidden ground of my heart.