Gert Strydom Poems

It's high summer in the last part of the year
in the Southern hemisphere of the earth,
here some people do not know of Christ's birth
or even that Christmas time is now near.
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You are the God of my spirit and my soul,
You are close in every day and night,
You make my ways straight and you wait,
it's extremely close to You that I want to be.
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(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin)

I see days, weeks, months and a year
without you passing just too quickly,
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Outside swallows chirp to You their song of praise,
weavers gambol the morning yellow and red,
they know that every good thing comes from You,
where you scatter their seed all over the veldt,
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(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin}

I wanted to find shelter in yesterday's tranquillity,
against attacks that humanity and the world makes.
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(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin)

Daily I call on God while I do perish,
to straighten all of my ways,
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My Lord and my God, today is the first day
of another new and unknown year.
I ask that You do consider sparing humanity,
where You do know what waits on every person.
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In tatters is my heart

(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin)
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In my life I know no other woman
who like in pure mathematics have everything suspended,
where you do stop our marriage
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To the end of time I would love you if I may
where I cannot stop it to love you
and in this New Year I miss you on every day,
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