Gert Strydom Poems

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In a crisis that could lead to world war three
it's a skew image that a person gets from the Americans:
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(for Annelize)

Outside I hear birds call in the twilight,
I wish you could now here reside,
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"You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:
see that you be not troubled:
for all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
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(for Annelize, after Alan Seeger)

From a young-man I have changed
but now I pray to love you once more,
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(for Annelize)

"He changes the times and the seasons:
He removes kings, and sets up kings:
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There is something so very expected
as glad my heart sing and unexpected,
where your new picture I before me see,
it's been long but we are still connected
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Far too many cries, voices, actions and lies
draw, force and oblige me to write something,
as in the last part of summer birds sing,
in dismal horror call outright to me,
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(for Annelize)

Where fragile we flutter God does notice it,
it's Him that makes it better and beautiful bit by bit.
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At eighteen I had been called up to war,
for training, and the country to defend,
the days my life, was turned and bend,
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Where in my life I now count the hours,
days pass while mornings come and go,
where You do turn my life around and do repair it,
even when I fall and have to try again.
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