Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

Outside the weavers twitter, the doves coo
and even the smallest sparrows are jubilant,
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I remember a song where they were singing:
'are they going to drop the bomb or not, '
I get the impression: life does not mean a lot,
where barbaric tactics the news is bringing,
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(for Annelize)

In times as these we are living in,
we notice the effects of sin:
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Sometimes we feel caught-up in life,
if there is no escape for anyone,
but God acts even when evil hangs over us.
He brings to each life meaning,
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(for Annelize)

When I listen to you I am sometimes breathless,
it's almost as if I can feel your breath,
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(for Annelize)

You accept me with all my imperfections,
as I am, without doubt do understand me
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I see skyscrapers and apartments burning,
in normal people's lives great devastation,
a dazed little boy slowly turning,
great fear on his face from the situation
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(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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