Gert Strydom Poems

My Lord, in this life everyone is underway
on a crusade between right and wrong,
aiming at a place where a person do seen the unseen
with the choice to stand against You or to serve You sincerely
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At times longing brings a kind of pain
when I am totally alone
and do want you right here,
when every occurrence
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You were noble, white and pure as snow
when buckets full fell at your job,
to and thro people did in a hurry go
but for you and me the world did stop
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Throughout all the seasons of my life
my love burns like a flame in the snow
where years pass with you as my wife
and in a modern age we do come and go,
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(after Theunis Engelbrecht)

Out of love I will build you a house of blue-rock
in the grassy plains of the valleys of my heart,
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(in answer to Stephan Bouwer)

You now lie with an arm intimate over me,
your snoring sounds as if you purr next to me
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(in answer to D. J. Opperman)

To you who after years I do know intimate and thoroughly
I come with my ideals and also all of my dreams,
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It is as if all of spring does bring joy to You
while everywhere birds do day and night sing songs of praising,
the almond and cherry trees do carry their own wedding-gowns
every fruit tree stands with its blossoms ready
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One more time through the veldt I want to walk with you,
where the sweet grass do everywhere stand knee-high and green,
where everything is untouched and open
as if this world is not slowly going to the abyss.
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(after George Weideman)

Without you mere moments do change to nothing,
months do change to years where the drought is severe.
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