Gert Strydom Poems

May I offer her a single deep red rose
as a witness of my love, my integrity
that she may in the withering see
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When nothing anymore brings me peace,
even in heaven or on earth
and when I find nothing beautiful, or glorious
in the stars blazing in the night sky,
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The veldt is all around me
and I am beyond enemy lines
camouflaged, clothed in
military uniform, wearing tracking boots,
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Almighty God, creator of everything,
let me ask in Your holy name
that the unrighteousness that is happening,
now draw Your attention
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With great speed a thing runs
into the lounge
and braids past a bookcase
with aunt Leen behind it.
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I sit in a bar in Sixth Street,
with some flashing lights at the slot machines,
people playing at the pool tables,
the bar man smiling at someone’s joke
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Called up for armed military service
hundreds of thousands white boys
are forced into a war
of whom I am but a single one
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On a rainy night with a gunmetal sky
I saw crisp leaves fly in the wind,
but your laughter was like a ray of light
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We were hot on a fresh spoor
and the bushman tracker said
that the enemy were not far ahead
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In the house in fifth avenue
I put a small pink white marble table
below a mirror in the corridor
with a bowl with flowers standing on it
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