Gert Strydom Poems

Everywhere my enemies do gather around me
while You alone do fight the battle for me,
when I lay down it is safe when I rest in You,
I am constantly aware of Your benevolence
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My Lord, You do hear my prayer
and without Your help and friendship I am lost,
speechless I am in my own inability
and my misery and worries You do notice.
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(For Daleen)

Let me feel your breath against my face
when right against me you suddenly do awake,
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The child use pieces of crayon,
draws a giant tree dark brown
with grass green leaves and bloody red fruit
that hangs on the branches
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(For Daleen)

It's on days like these that the summer sun
does get a own glory, where purity is
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Crimson-red aloes speck the hillock,
standing out in bright patches
against the green vegetation
of the rock studded small kopje
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(in answer to Louis Esterhuizen)

When I tell you that I do not deserve you
I do see you as an angel in times of darkness
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From the day of our wedding years back
you do accuse me that I do flirt (woo other women)
and nothing can now over-bridge these lies:
you think that you can say and do just as you will.
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(For my wife Daleen)

Love takes you to places where you had not been before
and this is how I want every new tomorrow to be with you,
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In the distance on a Sunday I hear a church-bell ring,
this Sunday is also for other people a season of festivity,
when the muezzin from the minaret in the distance calls loudly.
At night crackers and fireworks go off in the sky
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