Gert Strydom Poems

Your words do tear me to pieces
and I wonder how such things come from your mouth?
I have disguised my bitter pain from you
and too many times I had to swallow away my own humanity.
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As the silver moon at midnight
watched from a starry sky
like touching fingers her bright light
were tenderly passing us by,
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The night tumbles down
when the last stars are driven off
and even the morning star flees
before the sun and the day-sky
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How difficult it’s sometimes
to decipher the codex of your heart
and at times when your eyes catch mine
its if sunshine and deep truths
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With you I want to make eye contact
and then I want to love you,
want to massage your back and feet
until al of the love cards
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Outside something sneaks around during the dark moon
and it comes nearer and nearer and stands still
when the voice of a child calls in the distance
and I imagine it’s already on the porch.
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The blackbird of the night
covers the sky
and it’s rather dark
as if the stars are dim
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When words pull meaning to pieces
then I want to embrace you
and hold you gently against me
and by actions begin to say things to you,
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It’s not the fault of summer
that the heat at a time does depart
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In His great arithmetic
and at a exact time
God spoke and the great wide world awoke
coming in effect to His exact design
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