Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize, in answer to Sunita Grover Raina)

Sometimes your heart is a difficult thing
to all of its full depths to comprehend,
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It looks chilly where people sit against a concrete wall.
There are eight: A grandfather about my own age,
a husband and beautiful young wife that smiles lovely,
and five children of which the youngest toddler girl is blonde.
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The love that is in me nothing do expel,
while for you I long in the lonely hours.
I smell you in the frequent rain-showers.
I wait for voice-notes that of your day tell.
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A president weak as Neville Chamberlain,
amazes me at the repeating history:
in Russia a man I do as Hitler see,
who tempts Europe into a world war again.
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I saw it walk on water with its mate behind,
a white swan at speed preparing for its flight,
this attachment to each other comes to mind,
it was becoming twilight and almost night.
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No hail to the frail old ugly despot,
frail in that he have no integrity got,

who views all other men as Neo-Nazi,
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'They cried out in a loud voice,
'Holy and true Sovereign, how long will it be
before You judge and take revenge
on those living in the earth
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(for Annelize)

You truly have guts, grit and beauty,
lovely eyes that do with passion glow.
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Sometimes (Persian quatrain)

(for Annelize)
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'Our scientific power
has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles
and misguided men.'
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