You Accept Me Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize)

You accept me with all my imperfections,
as I am, without doubt do understand me
and with you I have many connections:
with how your spirit and soul and mind I see,
and freely you shelter me from all directions,
speak and act with great sincerity,
head past destiny's real deflections,
even if life is not how we want it to be
and if this is not love in all its perfections,
as you act and speak with integrity,
as you are present in all my reflections,
then it does not exist in all eternity.