Gert Strydom Poems

Suddenly awakening from a dream
in love we were
and you like lovely Snow-white were smiling
while here and there
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The more intimate and better I do know you,
the more I am amazed
by your fragile humanity, by a beauty
that fits perfectly
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I who with my own strong defences
did fall in love with you,
was far too vulnerable in the dark night
when you were with me
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the more I am amazed
by your fragile humanity, by a beauty
that fits perfectly
into the part that my life needs
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Your eyes that sparkle gold like the sun
have got stories,
secrets of how your feelings are,
tells constantly
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Forthright I want to love you
and I want to hold you dearer,
tell my deepest things to you
and where feelings begin
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and I want to hold you dearer,
tell my deepest things to you
and where feelings begin
without words expose my heart
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In that night we learned
what pain and joy is
and silently we lay in each other’s arms
in the darkness,
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While clouds did mill, ominous thundergirt
and in darkness
pile all over the distant horizon
we did caress,
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Although our feelings are true winter comes
too suddenly
and in our quick approaching middle-age
we love gladly
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