Gert Strydom Poems

When darkness
abounds with me
and your thunderstorm
falls out of the bright blue sky
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I keep myself occupied
by searching for a job
on the Internet,
writing stories and poems,
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I know Algebra
and Calculus too
and I wish for a world
where there’s only
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All the great young men
walking on patrol
in the African sun
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Gnashing enemy tanks are coming on
while the Ratel-90 stands still
and many things
goes through my mind.
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Although I feel battered,
spent and chased away
yesterday is stuck in my thoughts.
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I have come to know
the words that you write
in your poetry
which I read
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When first I kissed you
I died,
and we were one
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Unfortunately times change
and sometimes not for better
but for worse.
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Have you killed a white today
is still being proclaimed
and old people are killed,
white farmers pay a price
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