Gert Strydom Poems

(After John Clare)
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With you I go to bed and do awake
but alone I am and you are not here
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Outside the flowers in garden and the lawn
are drenched from all the rain
and the water gathers in puddle to puddle
while sheets of fog fades everything.
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A slight breeze stirred through the new green grass
that sprouted after the first spring showers,
time did far too quickly in the veldt pass
while we both were looking for small flowers,
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From the right way I must not deviate,
in the bright day it's night to me:
in my soul a groan, m my spirit lamentation
while you do evade me day by day.
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My Lord, I ask that you give me life,
that You do determine my days over again.
I am a sinner and punished severely
where now purposeless I wander through life
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(after Christina Georgina Rossetti)

You come to me during the night
at day are present in my greatest fears,
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The soft glance in your eyes is still lingering,
there are memories that it brings back.
I have got an inability when you do set my days.
I hear a redbreast singing its heart out,
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You say I am yours through prayer,
my soul draws your words in to the depth of it,
I think that you have got lovely principles,
that you were destined from the beginning.
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To halt our marriage you see as smart,
to put our lives on a merry-go-round
while I do need to be on solid ground,
to live for a time totally apart,
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You shall no other man but me adore
it's far too complicated to have many more
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