Gert Strydom Poems

In me to my mother tongue and country there is a bond
and the Capital City that is full of jacaranda trees
but deeper than this it's in you that I am lost,
you know me in my humanity and also every secret.
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Today I prayed to God to answer a prayer,
I prayed against them that work underhand,
that every word you would really understand,
asked God in your day to really take care,
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My Lord, my prayer rings in Your ears
and without your help and friendship I am lost,
speechless I am in my own inability
and my misery and cares Your eyes do see.
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(After Totius)

In every place, or time or scope up to eternity
You are present, even in infinity,
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(in answer to Ingrid Jonker)

Throughout the day there is beautiful things that we do find,
where you take everything pampering in your hands
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Dearly I do remember the holiday at the ocean,
how you and I at times where with other single,
also how with the children at times we did mingle
also each day, each aspect and each true emotion:
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(in answer to my wife, Daleen Enslin)

Do you know that I believe in you and your love?
It is something of hope, trust and faith,
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I see you in my thoughts with candles in chandeliers
when the moon hangs bloody red outside,
with the gleam of light falling softly in your hair
where now I am broken in longing for you
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On the chessboard of destiny I feel like a pawn.
Although to follow the true God I do daily strive,
it's as if life and living do us at times apart drive
but by sincere true love we are together drawn.
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(in answer to D. P. M. Botes)

You are beautiful and every person spots it,
know about your garden and they do admire you,
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