Gert Strydom Poems

(in answer to M. M. Walters)

To think that God who is omniscient and has got knowledge of everything,
who is from eternity to eternity does not comprehend His existence,
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You did suddenly left me
while the spring did whisper in the branches
was speaking a secret kind of language
while thousands of blossoms did appear everywhere
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Now my body does know you
my arms know
how to hold you tight
and your arms know how to fold
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My sweetheart and I
watched a crimson sky
with the setting sun
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I dare to love you
even beyond despair
while time and circumstance
has robbed me
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The hot summer night
breezes in through the window
and in the distance
over the hills
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Today an angel did decend next to me,
she took love out of her heart for me
it was in all small things that she did and said
and I would want it no different
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(after Johann Johl)

My Lord, where for years I have had problems
to find a job while I am qualified and were yearning for a income,
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(in answer to M. M. Walters)

Where I do live in the structured reality
of a career that does not anymore exist,
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(For Daleen, in answer to John Donne)

Now you have been in love with me
for many a day,
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