Indelible Imprints Poem by Gert Strydom

The lives of great heroes,
stars and true leaders
leave indelible imprints
in our thoughts each day.

Though there is something that integrity
and passion and compassion and duty leaves,
that makes much deeper impressions

Still more everybody battles,
with the I and self
and with light and darkness.

Like prisoners in a jail
everybody searches,
for a way to be forever free
of the calamities of the flesh.