Gert Strydom Poems

Where for our love I have got great hope
while a moment becomes full of power
that acts transitory during a single hour,
where all of my life is in destiny's scope,
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My love, it was on a sunny early spring day
that you did call, on the phone and did hurt me
and fluttering outside a myriad of birds did play,
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(for Annelize)

I met you on a bright hot summer day,
your smile was radiant; your eyes did gleam,
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'Wherever we are, we will be together today,
and together we will look in the evening sky,
and together we will remember
the morning of February 24.
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For years she did cling
to the knowledge
that someone does truly love her
and silently and faithful she did live
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(after Heinrich Heine)

More beautiful than any flower
you are fragile in your heart,
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So it’s been twenty years,
Annelize, since we wed
and a time that no man
could ever forget.
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Of you I have a kind of knowledge
that I still do keep safe
that never can disappear from my heart,
with time its still there,
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Love me truthfully and sincere for nought
but the essence, the principle of what love is,
even if desire comes in rapture and in bliss,
let there between us be more in each thought,
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