Gert Strydom Poems

Where people live in the concrete jungle
with apartments as their property
and no one knows of grass or flowers
or any natural life source
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I do believe that love lasts forever
even if after death it starts again
to find someone that is very special,
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Where on that hill of Calvary ages ago you were slain
You died there to quench man’s pain,
although still your bright light
shines down in every day and every dark night
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Like smoke the bubbles whirl up
in the wind’s frolicking game
hopping like horses that gallop
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No new horizons catch his blue eyes
when he gets the command for his freedom,
just the wide sky stretches out far above
where the sun blazes yellow in the blue
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When I walk om Margate’s beach
something is caught,
in the sound of the breaking waves
and it echoes there forever more.
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My years are coming on
and some of my words
are gone from my mind
never to return again
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I feel winter’s first cold fingers touching
and time flash by to quickly
as if the last years are waiting on me
and I button my jacket tighter
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As if just asleep I was waken
with the light shining brightly in my eyes,
when darkness did disappear suddenly
and I came alive again.
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In His emptying from God to man,
where his cloak was bright white like light
He came to be tortured and cursed,
He came against sin as the balance
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