Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize, after Dorothy Parker)

Where in my heart and life everything does shatter
in the garden the roses still blossom sweet,
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(in answer to Charl-Pierre Naudé)

Nothing can save us from the darkness of the heart
that tears and sorrow did chisel in,
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(in answer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

There is nothing that can stop the sands of time
and although many lives may be sublime,
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Utterly busy people pass me in the street
with faces full of worry and some do glow
and there are tokens on everyone I do meet,
signs of hardship, of misery and woe
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(for Annelize)

Tonight the bright yellow moon hangs solitary
in the grey twilight before the fall of night
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(for Annelize)

I wish I had said how lovely you are to me
and I am saying this with sincere affection
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(for Annelize)

In your white satin dress I do you see,
lovelier than an angel you came to me,
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(for Annelize)

Maybe life goes like this
that somebody brings the world to a halt
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(for Annelize)

Maybe the biggest sacrifice
that a human can give
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(for Annelize)

Maybe the biggest sacrifice
that a human can give
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