Gert Strydom Poems

My Lord, there is something sad
that I want to bring to You
and its clear to me
that You do already know of it
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When love comes into your life
then it’s something with an own kind of beauty
and love at times even brings peace to strive.
When love comes into your life
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My Lord, my friends, family and acquaintances
are not bad but they are only people
and even our best deeds and conversations
and sometimes our desires and wishes
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(after W.H. Auden)

They had fled from him,
some for their lives from his sight,
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Your penetrating glance does silence my words
when it goes far beyond the surface
and here I have got to deviate from my own will
when you take me to an unknown space of time,
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My Lord, today I do realize
that sin is a living reality,
that iniquity is present in my whole being
as if a union with the darkness
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Today you are beautiful,
more pretty than on any other day
and if you want to find fault with these words
then you do not see how I see you laugh.
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(after Luis de Góngora y Argote)

I saw the prettiest girl in town
standing alone a the pier, looking at the sea
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Far too long I have wandered in the darkness
were blinded against Your cobalt-blue sky
and now a promise radiates out of the spring,
suddenly all of life is coming back.
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I have given my heart to you,
and did bind myself
more unconditional than wisdom does want,
did lay myself down in your hands
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