Gert Strydom Poems

(for Daleen)

I wish I did tell you that nobody is like you,
you are in my soul, spirit, flesh, and heart and in my mind
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Do remember my true love when I cannot stay,
when by destiny locked-down from you I am away,
when all of life changes from what we have planned
and then sincerely do trust me and try to understand
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(for Daleen)

I remember the summer had been so gay,
your smile had been to me a great delight,
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(for Daleen)

Just the same my love stays in these months,
you are picture-perfect like a real angel to me,
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The most beautiful times with you
in that which we both say and do,
is part of my loveliest memories,
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My God, in a deadly time I call on You
in whose almighty hands eternity lies
where we all are sinners in the things we do,
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Next to the ocean I stood with you,
past the horizon the sun did draw its line through,
while waves did against rocks splatter a male couple did argue,
a yacht sailed to somewhere and held to north true
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Far too long locked-down from you I am away,
while a virus do bring only death and pain
and daily for humanity and you I do pray
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You are in my heartbeat and in my breath
and every though and little thing remind me of you
while God have brought our lives on the same way
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Yellow, bright and brash wherever I see
innocent and yet living free
with the spring they are rising,
as their seeds are spreading
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