Gert Strydom Poems

My God, senseless people ineptly do rule over me,
You know how we do suffer and we are not free
and at times I stand in life in total dismay
but hide close to You as if these dark days will forever stay.
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When I come to you as your bridegroom
my heart sings a song of love to you,
you do take me to places far past sorrow
when you leave me dumbstruck as my darling,
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From the first moment you did me beguile,
it was as if you brought happiness in despair,
still your perfume hangs in mind's air.
Just give me a kiss and a sweet smile,
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When my heart sings in passion over you
where you are constantly everywhere with me
then love is a sweet fig, a piece of my memory,
which brings everything to fruitfulness,
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In life I have learnt to laugh at fate
even if my existence it did betwixt,
while by your true love I was fixed,
to live on while people do me hate,
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My God, senseless people ineptly do daily rule over me,
You know how my people and I do suffer and I am not free
and at times I stand in life in dismay while life is in disarray
but hide close to You, as if these dark days will forever stay.
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You are the word that is all life,
who spoke at the very origin
who caused all things to begin
in a perfect way without any strife.
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The great universe as it does exist
with pulsars, stars and nebula do insist
as do the moon at night, the sun at day,
that the great Originator did his power display
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The world becomes full of leaves that autumn scatters around
and cheerful like a child you throw shopping bags on the bed,
look life and me in the eyes, joyful smile,
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When the lock of the back door have been replaced,
the gutter's shiny down-pipe hangs on its place,
the pipes in the roof that want to leak are repaired,
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