Gert Strydom Poems

(after Alfred Lord Tennyson)

If with all of your heart you loved me,
what ill would I fear while I lived on earth?
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That the last chance for each demon to convert
was nailed with You on the cross I know,
and that they do live in people,
they keep those persons away from you.
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(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin)

Tonight the moon hangs big, low and bloody-red,
where without end I long for you,
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My Lord and my God, who knows everything,
as a mere human I remind you today:
I call in my wretchedness to You in Your omnipotence
that You do not forget that I do love You,
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(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin)

The rays of the sun caress as if you are kissing me,
I smell lucerne that is blue over the field,
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My Lord and my God, who knows everything,
as a mere human I remind you today:
I call in my wretchedness to You in Your omnipotence
that You do not forget that I do love You,
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You might have been God's great gift in my life,
where He tried to teach us about true love,
about peace and true joy like that of a dove,
where through the unstable years you are my wife,
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My Lord, what can I bring on Your birthday,
to You, my God and friend, as a human-being?
In Your hand is every wonderful thing.
Where You do exist in Your unending omnipotence
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My Lord, You know how my wife is a part
of my own humanity and spirit and soul,
I ask that you do heal our relationship,
You know how I have been missing her for months.
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This year Christmas time for me is lonesome,
I am forced to spend it without you,
while still my love for you do remain true.
You are with yours and I on my own-some.
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