Life Is Poem by Gert Strydom

1
Without you life is just an empty place,
with dark clouds that covers the sky
where I live in a moment in time and space.
I realize there is sadness and heartache in each goodbye,
do not know how the eternal emptiness to face
that keeps coming between you and I

2
but Babe, then suddenly we do meet again
and I feel the hot sun on my skin,
with you do joyfully dance in the rain
while into your world you draw me in
and we experience bliss and no pain
while over again we do begin

3

and in a world where we did stumble, did fall,
our love grows and do become strong
and all problems do become insignificant and small
while I hear your name in every beautiful song
where to each other we offer it all
and realize that together we do belong

4

and some might see it as sin
while over and over we do start
in a world where we do loose and win
but Babe, you are in my soul and heart
and although I do get flack and din
of my life you are an essential part
and I pray to God to hold you within
as life is hell when we are apart

5

and to some I might just be a man in lust
but between you and me there is much more than this
while together we do what we must
and we know kindness and real happiness and bliss
while in each other and God we do trust

6

and my heart skips a beat when you call,
there is expectation when the phone rings
as if just great things might me befall,
with joy outside the redbreast sings
and shadows fall over the wall
while at the window there are fluttering wings

7

but while you talk to me you do cry
do tell me not to come home again,
where this is the most sad kind of goodbye
and lightning flashes, it smells of rain,
while something strange is between you and I
and to my most inner part I do know great pain.
© Gert Strydom