Gert Strydom Poems

I see her standing, waiting in line
outside a prison
as if becoming part of her poem
and it requiems through my mind
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Though the night passes too soon
and the brightness of the moon
fades too quickly with day’s light,
stars disappear
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I do like appreciation
and of it I can never get enough.
Not just to say thank you
but to know that you are thinking of me.
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Your dad says proudly that he did design you himself
and your eyes, nose and mouth are genetically from him.
Your mother says that she is your own breeding machine,
the paediatrician says that you may go home tomorrow
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Tonight phosphorescence
is present over your body
while we walk in shorts
under a golden moon
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Come live with me, be a love to me
and I swear by God in the sky above
that I will be true to you
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The Son of God who became a human being
did walk upon the water of the Sea of Galilee,
when He came to set all men free
from sin and His love still is something amazing
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While the inhabitants of this planet do still rebel
as for centuries their ancestors have done
under Lucifer and his forces of hell
the great Creator does not expel
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The sounds of cars, trucks, trains disappear
when the night comes dark and suddenly the moon shines.
Somewhere outside a dove calls to its mate
and amber lights wink one after the other
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Remind me about how it once was
when we were newly in love,
about how neatly our lives fitted into each other’s
before the time when the hurting did begin.
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