Gert Strydom Poems

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My most beautiful memories of you
I experience again in a dream,
where you fold your clothes on a rock
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Life have made me careful of womankind,
to look for subtle ways that to them belong,
that quickens the heart and do stun the mind,
the delicate snares a man can fall among,
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Something has gone wrong
and things are not
how they used to be
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I want to remember you eternally,
I want to know you better than you do know me,
continually come back to you on each weekend,
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That from each other we are apart is not my greatest grief
where still I do hold in high esteem and love you very dear,
that life does pass without you in it is of my sadness chief
and it's as if in life the way to you is never to me very clear,
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Last night I saw the spine of the night,
I saw stars glow, glitter and jump far away
I did wonder about a God, who creates pure light,
who comes with deliverance to those who stray.
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I am no longer
from you,
because you have
discarded me.
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Being locked-down on my very own,
it's almost as bad as been left behind,
while where the death virus is, is unknown,
where I do struggle real answers to find.
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With my mother of 86, half-cripple with me,
that waits in the long line outside Strubenvale Pick n Pay
an employee of Pick n Pay passes angry,
screams deafening with all her might:
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How single can a person become
when love dies
and how without any cause
can things become,
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