No Secrets Do Any Mirror Reveal Poem by Gert Strydom

No Secrets Do Any Mirror Reveal



No secrets do any mirror reveal,
but to age impacting, the years leaving impressions on my face
and no urgency do I feel
to make haste

and to this I am not blind
and I am the only one
and have no heed to form another of my stock and kind
but my poetry, my words are left when I am gone.

In war I have seen the jeopardy of man, his courage
on a senseless cruel earth
but in this time and age
let others bring children in the world, give birth:

my time shall come to rise again, when my Lord come
and with Him to go to an unspoilt home.

[Reference: Sonnet 3 “Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest” by William Shakespeare.]

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Gert Strydom

Gert Strydom

Johannesburg, South Africa
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