Gert Strydom Poems

(after A.G. Visser)

On a winter afternoon it became icy cold
as Rachel and Hendrik was searching for a calf,
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Little does it matter what I do,
the loving of you
is a strange and uplifting thing,
and sometimes right out of the blue
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No whip has ever lashed
such an innocent man
who did choose to suffer punishment
as the Lamb of God
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Love is like a gentle smooth pond
and then life comes with its cares and pain
and love's ripple effect spreads far and beyond
and like drops of pure rain
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At the starting of the Angola Civil war
during December 1975 a armoured car
of battle group X-Ray attacked the enemy
in the town of Lobito who did run away and flee
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Laying with a couple of bushman trackers
in the darkness of a almost starless clouded sky,
not being able to make a nice hot fire,
being too near to the enemy
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How sadly I have been absent in this spring
while new sprouts and flowers were rising
when the loveliest hot days you have seen
and our love had been a struggling withering thing
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That you are pretty
the whole world knows

but you do not really realize it
...

I

In the first year of the reign of king Darius
over the Chaldeans
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I have been told by a young mortician
about a very strange odd incident
where declared dead by a physician
as a corpse to the mortuary went.
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