Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

Even if this blessed rainy-season is grey
you are the sunshine coming into my life,
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(for Annelize, in answer to Marija Najthefer Popov)

If only we could hold back time:
when we were young and beautiful and fair,
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(for Annelize)

A mere glimpse of you I find in my sleep;
love sometimes is incomprehensible and deep,
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(for Annelize)

It's such a bright beautiful sunny summer-day,
with tranquillity that comes on a Sunday
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Outside the rain pours down days without end,
I hear the birds while lightning-bolts flash sing about You,
that nothing can stop Your omnipotence and love,
that You do bring salvation in impossibility.
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(for Annelize)

I walked outside in the dim twilight,
came up to the gleaming neon sign
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(for Annelize)

About the most beautiful Cape a lot of people talk
and I do agree as it is where you are,
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At eighteen I was called to the military
for compulsory service in a time of war.
My life changed from what it was before.
It felt if from destiny I would not be free,
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(for Annelize, in answer to Alan Seeger)

I call on true love in its simple ways:
do not want to leave a single line unwrit;
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(to Annelize, who were mine on Valentine's day)

I hear your voice with every breath,
every sound bears to me great meaning,
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