Gert Strydom Poems

The doors open
and constantly we climb into the metal monsters
do switch the engine on and the journey does begin
as it's too far to walk
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(for Annelize)

The things that is true in my heart to you I want to say:
I do find you lovely and wonderful on every day
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On Africa's most southern shore
I heard the breakers roar
saw a wave breaking right over you
while I swam with you who I adore
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(for Annelize)

My love my darling, is pure and true
and I want to dedicate my life to you
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Where the medium Nonquase do get her water,
she notices faces of which nobody does argue with her.

Chorus:
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Where at a time there had been civilization
buildings now stand in ruins and in strips of grass
with pock-marks of bullets, grenades
and mortar bombs and a dried puddle of blood
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(for Annelize)

Decades now lie between you and me,
to my heart you do bring tranquillity
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Stories of heroes and heroines we do behold
where through countless ages they are told
of Helen, Phaon, Sappho, Abelard and Heloise
whose great love for others were very bold
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Far off to another land under a distant sun
setting his sails to the prevailing breeze,
far past where the horizon and sky is one
he sailed away on the Aegean seas,
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