Gert Strydom Poems

Do not look
for fairness in this life,
for you will not find it
as the reason to be living
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If you stay away from work
just like you want to,
there is a price to pay for it
since no man lives without duty.
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You wanted to know
what lies beyond,
the endless stars
and was intrigued by the moon
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A boy on a bicycle
passes by
and whistles and waves,
but without looking at him
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There are things
which people never discuss,
like wickedness and destruction
and loss of humanity
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As an angel and devil that God share:
you leave me wounded and heal me,
you lead me into temptation and to tranquil waters,
are in my dreams, in my life as someone real.
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While I planted some vegetable seedlings
today with me you did not a step walk
neither did we here with each other talk
about all of our common happy things
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It's nice to call the American president a racist,
to hide behind political innuendoes and propaganda,
while the real culprits who did spread death worldwide
still run free and without any remorse go on with life.
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To me forever you will be very lovely
as all of your love stays true in my heart,
like a unwritten never painted kind of art
as if not a thing can vanquish your beauty.
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I ask You my Lord, to make my people holy again.
In times of a deadly virus that comes and in times of happiness,
that You do touch each life with Your Spirit and love and mercy,
do jerk everyone in this country out of the fire like burning-wood,
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