Gert Strydom Poems

I tried to remember you
from the way that you look,
from the small frown between that your eyes
against the sharp light,
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Just touching your hand is overwhelming,
blazing passion
runs through us both like an electric stream,
the sheer emotion
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Gracious Lord, when at night I lie awake
my body tingles all over, all nerves are erect,
I long to her in each and every breath I take,
her image, her face, her hair, her neck
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She thought: He truly cares for me, saw eyes
full of worry,
while the affairs of state weighed him down;
like a lorry
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Through dark nights I am alone,
I am still missing you in this bleak season
while the storm wind blows strong in the rain,
I forget everything that love could do,
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Unmarked is the route
that I have got to take to your heart,
without really knowing
about where to go
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From the first moment that I saw you,
you are constantly in my thoughts,
while your image lingers with me
as if you stick to my soul like burr-weed,
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When the stars wink, glittering above me,
it feels as if they do beacon to come nearer,
when I see them stretching to the horizon,
forming patterns or even drawing lines
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(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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That night guns roared
all around us everywhere
and the field was acrid
with the smell
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