Gert Strydom Poems

Goodbye now to the bush
and patrols that go on
almost endlessly,
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Long have I dreamed
as a warrior
to have the right weapons
and armour
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Let me tell about Wouter
standing against all wars
and who didn’t want to go
to a military camp.
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Applications are being waited on
for the position of mercenary
or now rather security consultant
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The golden light
of twelve candles
sparkled on your skin
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If words could kill,
then kill they will
without impunity
reaching out
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The night that peace comes
torches are launched into the sky
like stars
to glide hanging to the ground
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When the killing criminals come
there will be no pistol
or shotgun to protect me
and my family,
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If words could kill,
then kill they will
without impunity
reaching out
...

While working as a senior accountant
at the head office of a major worldwide religion:

I have seen colleagues
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