Gert Strydom Poems

I who with my own strong defences
did fall in love with you,
was far too vulnerable in the dark night
when you were with me
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the more I am amazed
by your fragile humanity, by a beauty
that fits perfectly
into the part that my life needs
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Your eyes that sparkle gold like the sun
have got stories,
secrets of how your feelings are,
tells constantly
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Forthright I want to love you
and I want to hold you dearer,
tell my deepest things to you
and where feelings begin
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and I want to hold you dearer,
tell my deepest things to you
and where feelings begin
without words expose my heart
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While our deeds are from harshness innocent,
mere words express
that what we deem love in fullness to be,
what it possess,
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With the twinkle of first sight in their eye
a flaming star soared across the sky
as it shined with its own new light
and in only a wink it did pass by.
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Although we do live in a dark planet,
a place of sin
while time moves forward constantly
demons cannot win,
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Your hand is in the rain
that falls for fourteen days without end

and when the first yellow peaches appear
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We know violets are blue, roses are red,
carnations too
some hollyhocks are pink and indistinct
I do love you,
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