Gert Strydom Poems

I dare to love you
even beyond despair
while time and circumstance
has robbed me
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The hot summer night
breezes in through the window
and in the distance
over the hills
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Today an angel did decend next to me,
she took love out of her heart for me
it was in all small things that she did and said
and I would want it no different
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(after Johann Johl)

My Lord, where for years I have had problems
to find a job while I am qualified and were yearning for a income,
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(in answer to M. M. Walters)

Where I do live in the structured reality
of a career that does not anymore exist,
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(For Daleen, in answer to John Donne)

Now you have been in love with me
for many a day,
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When He walked into the temple
with His whip slashing like rifle shots
He did drive away the deceitful moneychangers
and they were men who treaded on others to make a profit.
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(in answer to Cornelius van der Merwe)

You who are a eternal Sheppard
do witness how evil the things are in this country,
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It's as if every yesterday do today come back to me,
there is a mystic message in every flower
and through the eons You do to me talk.
When the chrysalis becomes a living butterfly,
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(after C. J. Langenhoven)

Now each person is self-focused and keeps longing
and yearning for better days while destiny hangs over the future.
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