Gert Strydom Poems

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While almost all of the world was against You in revolt
You came not with in Your fist the blazing thunderbolt,
nor with the flames falling from a clear cobalt sky
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In Your word day after day I can read about You,
get a picture of a God that loves selflessly,
about the one that knows everything and do notice all things,
the one who can heal deadly deceases.
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Almost out of myself I search for all kinds of answers,
do talk alone with an expert or sometimes in a group.
I thought all kinds of love for me did wither away
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Where stars are in the tree of the night
they do glow in the dark blue-white
when like a cat the moon sneaks higher up
before the red-day brings its bright light
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I think no other person has a life just like this,
where continually I find myself on the high wire,
try to map the lifeline and every step could take me down
into the depths of the abyss
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(in answer to Daniel Hugo)

A person can believe whatever you want to in a world full of darkness
and miss the Bible's principles of God,
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(in answer to R. K. Belcher)

In my short life I have seen that professors of religion
and clergymen do not hold the Bible holy,
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I wish you could see the cosmos in the veldt in the green
where they do flower in a pink, purple and white sheen
wildly do cover the grassy sidewalks in their abundance
do in the strong breeze everywhere in the sun dance
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It had been at the time of the equinox
as you watched a butterfly on the snowy-white phlox
while bunches of roses I did pick like in my younger days
you were jubilant and lovely in the sun's rays
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Where do people believe that this world does decay,
that all kinds of disasters do abound on this planet
they do loose sight of God in the universe,
while you and I in this time realise the depth of our love,
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