From Birth (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

From my birth to now
I took life on how it is:
there are all kinds of things that I look at
and do view people, tribes and culture in their meaning,
where the Zulu-impi do dance around a fire,
the tikoloshe comes deadly with its attacks,
where people do shelter against the darkness
and constantly in all of this I remain speechless
where I do put into words all things that are unique and mythological,
do write about the absolute truth of history,
try to stop the forces of the darkness, of the hell,
do tell about heroic deeds, the abyss and oppression,
but more than this I do come back to God
and as the only solution and the core I do see Him.

[Reference:"Pantograaf" (Pantograph)by Elisabeth Eybers.]

© Gert Strydom