Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

I remember you in that summer so happy and gay,
from early morning the sun was high and bright
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the makeup of exactly what He is,
the composition of God
where He exists outside the scope,
the science,
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the makeup of exactly what He is,
the composition of God
where He exists outside the scope,
the science,
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Invisible but yet right here Your power
is working where in secret it's visiting
doing its actions in this early time of spring
and very slowly in secret hour by hour
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In ancient settlements which went to waste to sand and stone
where every living animal and man had been turned to bare bone,
in the shadows at night while the moon rise and the star shine
are drawn the outlines as if into infinity those places are not gone
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With God's infinite grace
beyond innumerable galaxies, planets and almost every star
there is a perfect place
where angels victorious against Lucifer in war
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(for Annelize)

To me you do remain a mystery
and yet the perfect woman to me,
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(for Annelize, after Dorothy Parker)

Where in my heart and life everything does shatter
in the garden the roses still blossom sweet,
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(in answer to Charl-Pierre Naudé)

Nothing can save us from the darkness of the heart
that tears and sorrow did chisel in,
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(in answer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

There is nothing that can stop the sands of time
and although many lives may be sublime,
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