Gert Strydom Poems

The doctor, the police and a mortician did visit the house,
the tidy yard in the corner of the street,
the man had been stabbed to death, the woman raped
and our whole country is cursed with the plundering and killing.
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Too white and bleak was your face,
too lifeless you countenance.
your intense blue eyes closed
with no pulse beating in your heart.
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(for Annelize)

Where I am aware of your fragrance,
your own humanity,
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There had been a man of God, a prophet,
that measured out God's will on the earth,
that for years did stop the rain from falling
when man did forget the omnipotent Lord God.
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At last light suddenly there was Someone with him
that grabbed him in a terrible wrestling-grip and forced him down
and with all of his power Jacob did face Him,
did force Him away from him with might and a cry
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His dad Adam, told him to put God first,
about the lamb that would come and carry the sin of the world
but great jealously was in his heart
when Abel brought a lamb as a offering and asked God for His mercy
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(for Annelize)

The sea streched out into the endlessness
as if it is without an end and a beginning,
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Some lightning-bolts do explode
and huge drops do fall in the dust
but later it's rain that do only sieve down
and tonight the lights of the city are dull.
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The night still hangs on the twilight
when the first rays of the sun begins
as if the night is a gigantic tree
on which the myriad of stars do glow
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(for Annelize)

Everything around us have got their splendid fruit or great beauty
summer is far greater than just summer since you have been with me
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