Gert Strydom Poems

Sometimes in life and love I have got faith and great hope,
when I long back for the pretty days with you
then I want to change this life with something better,
baptize you into the most wonderful things that do exist
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Of people who charm each other I have not a clue,
their ways are like mist that evaporate like steam,
as they temp destiny, in heartache at times scream,
where this life holds you to what you say and do.
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You are mythological my equal and my twin,
as if we are so very similar where we look at each other
and together do turn the whole world around on its head,
so near we are in thoughts, taste and contemplation
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At times with you I feel as if I am blind,
as if the thing called love a great mystery
but throughout life you do bring me felicity
and constantly you are gracious and kind,
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In the reflection of every window
it's your phantom that I continually find,
as if in all other women blinded,
I do not get you out of my thoughts.
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In the summer sun glowing is your skin,
while on the white beach in comes the noontide,
behind sunglasses other females hide,
and you are glad as our holiday begin,
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In a late cold afternoon's winter gloom
where all of this life felt so limited,
I saw my red rose with open buds bloom,
it reminded me of love unlimited,
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With fever in a dream it landed next to me,
did wander in the mad dreams of my mind,
screeched and with red eyes looked me up and down,
walked up and down from one side to the other
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In my heart your lips remain kissing,
and into my thoughts your face do sneak,
where longing for you do things to me,
the next thing I know I find you in a poem
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It's now decades that with You I do hide
where You hear my prayers, in my situations I do abide,
like many other people I am stranded in my own land
yet I still believe You have got the upper hand,
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