Gert Strydom Poems

Sometimes next to you I lie on my back
while I rest during the dark hours of the night.
Sometimes it's in you that I loose everything and myself
when we desire each other in eternal moments
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As if these moments caught each emotion
where the tender passion of a single kiss
was something that will never again be like this
that came purely without any instigation,
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(in answer to Johann de Lange)

There is something incomprehensible that I now know:
that at the same time love can burn in flames to ashes
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Only mosquitoes turn around my head
where in the dark on my bed I lay
as if all my words are done and dead
until the morning twilight is grey
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Flash lightning comes the reproduction out of the machine,
even better than the memory of my own thoughts
where I see a photograph and a letter from you
and it brings mere moments back to me.
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Where like two love-struck doves we mingled,
for our love we have got a secure beautiful nest
and away are the days where we were singled,
where in life being together might be the best,
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You name to me is something that is holy,
that I do carry safely in my heart
and I do find you when I do use it,
it's something that I do call out in our secrecy.
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The world does change when you are gone,
in my heart there is mitigated pain
and slowly, very surely life goes on,
the summers come with their rain,
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I want to read the depth of your soul and laughter in your eyes,
come in prayer to the church of your body
as I do love you deep and cordially and you do move me
and in my thoughts and in my heart we are always together.
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Although in our love for each other we are one
yet separate as persons the two of us do remain,
where we face the trials both together and alone
we live through times of joy and sadness and pain,
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