Gert Strydom Poems

When the darkness comes between us
bringing overwhelming separation
and jumping with death
between our lives
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My Lord, there are times when I am searching for answers,
are searching to where deliverance lies
and sometimes situations just feel too much
but continually I do find Your answers
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While visiting a friend
who was innocently locked up while awaiting trial,
I saw how unapproachable,
chilly, almost emotionless the law officers
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(After Dylan Thomas)

He saw her standing on the pier
watching his boat coming in
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There are times that destiny does want to devour me
where I am extradited against the stormy wind
and if you in a time like that keep near to me
I am blinded like a child
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and the high shooting tower skeleton
against the setting sun
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(from Abelard to Heloise)

I can never forget
your words of love, my darling
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What does it help to ask
every priest, pastor, elder and deacon
to pray to God,
when God hears the prayer
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To you my unborn child
I will learn the songs
and read the poems
that tells about the honour of this nation,
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(after Breyten Breytenbach)

When the sun sets I wait upon my sweetheart
after office hours
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