Gert Strydom Poems

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It's night when more missiles come in,
suddenly somewhere nearby explode with destruction,
the building shakes and I smell the fine dust,
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Here the sun shines bright in a cobalt-sky,
it feels and looks like high-summer that lingers,
children play outside like in a beautiful story,
down flutter bush-doves out of their flight,
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When a big lunatic dreams of conquest:
to restore an empire as it was before,
then in rubble children die in guts and gore,
and this inhumane killing does all humans test,
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(for Annelize)

This is the very best time for me,
where deeply I do now know:
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My Lord, in every time and universe You do supreme reign,
You do protect when the enemy brings death and pain,
You are with every follower when the enemy do attack,
You shelter and see that the enemy do resources lack,
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(for Annelize)

I do you in my life and my days miss.
I was not born just to be your best friend,
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At Mykolaiv, at war in the Ukraine,
a Russian did his commander overrun
with a main battle tank caused great pain,
crushed legs instead of killing with a gun,
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(for Annelize)

It's a beautiful sunny summer day,
as if this summer will never end,
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The Russian army without fuel are stuck,
without air-support under heavy fire,
the circumstances become really dire,
death comes to tank, armoured car and truck
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(for Annelize, after Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin)

Far in the distance blue-white lightning falls,
as some more flashing thunder with raindrops
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