Gert Strydom Poems

From the time that every day had begun
life has got a struggle, an ageless kind of plea,
and from the awakening of the white hot sun,
even creatures in the unbounded sea
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With no kind of weakness or impediment
love is true like the compass sticks to the pole
hope, trust, honesty is its embodiment
and where this is lacking there is a huge hole;
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Like only a small grain of sand,
my life, the lives of all living people,
and the whole planet lies in Your hand
while for your power there are no boundaries;
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With eternity in His mere hand
and the darkness in which there was nothing
He did form everything; from only specks of dust
you and I was in His thoughts
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When God reveals great glory
I see it in His works
and He does not harbour any danger,
His great love is not bordered off
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At times you are my all in all,
and we are not alone
but at times you make me feel small
as if your love is gone
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Together we both do belong
like the sun and the sky,
and like the sweetest kind of song
through all its notes does fly
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The moments linger past midnight
while our emotions grow high
with love,
the true love between us.
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Two doves made their own nest
and with time cooed in love to each other
but one on a day disappeared
and never again came to watch its loved one,
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Copper brown Egyptian geese are in the marsh,
they call from the plumed reeds
and they leave flat tracks in the clay
when they walk past in a small group
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