Gert Strydom Poems

Love is like the air that we breathe in invisible
but always around us it does maintain life,
where the effects of it is visible
in words and acts and in all that we do strive
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(after Petra Müller)

I see you with the light radiating around you,
that bright glare with you hair silky-fine
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I try to penetrate your pleasant guise
without a bruise to be the hero,
but feel like a zero while I act somewhat wise,
without surprise the sun is hot on my sombrero
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Sometimes you seem collected and meek,
later in the week suddenly you do change
and life feels strange while I do seek
you out. With cheek, my life you do rearrange,
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Daily you do command the day and night in their interchange
while birds do sing the twilight orange in prayer,
at each birth you do endow the spark that gives life
where husband and wife do set blood-bonds with each other
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Daily you do command the day and night in their interchange
while birds do sing the twilight orange in prayer,
at each birth you do endow the spark that gives life
where husband and wife do set blood-bonds with each other
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My Lord, in this life everyone is underway
on a crusade between right and wrong,
aiming at a place where a person do seen the unseen
with the choice to stand against You or to serve You sincerely
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At times longing brings a kind of pain
when I am totally alone
and do want you right here,
when every occurrence
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You were noble, white and pure as snow
when buckets full fell at your job,
to and thro people did in a hurry go
but for you and me the world did stop
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Throughout all the seasons of my life
my love burns like a flame in the snow
where years pass with you as my wife
and in a modern age we do come and go,
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