Gert Strydom Poems

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My love, the taking care to not get COVID-19 is not done
although it almost seems as against it the battle is won,
where it seems that in South Africa the virus is halting
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I do adore you and you are in my marrow, soul and sprit
as an angel that can be more than a wife to me,
where for many years I am under your spell,
where you do entrust me with your painful things and ideals
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Your love fills my heart and you know well
that constantly Babe, I am under your spell
and although a virus do the world around whirl
in all of this you remain my one and only girl
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The colour of your eyes, the glow of your cheeks,
unloosen beautiful memories in me
and I remember our years together,
Darling-Doll, for me your lovely pet name
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You are beautiful and sincerely I do love you
and I do recall you whatever in life I do,
where it's no fun being away and lonely,
where you are more than the world for me
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Where above me Your southern-stars burn so bright,
I cannot but think about Your omnipotence.
Where the Seven-Sisters and the Southern Cross hangs above me
I want to long for that home on the other side of Orion.
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At daybreak the longing for you is severe,
as if a lock-down and state-control will last to eternity.
Outside there is a babbler that teases with it's calling,
it feels as if the bird will continue until it gets its will
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This seems like the time of destruction and of war
where you are far more than just dear to me
and to the depth of my heart I do you adore,
do pray that God will turn things right to be,
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That an omnipotent God exists I knew from my third year
and when my dog died, to my mother my prayer seemed in vane,
I did not realise it but somehow knew that He was near,
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(for my wife, Daleen)

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I know that David had been a man
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