Gert Strydom Poems

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1341.
If We Could Bend The Hour-Work Back

could make events, deeds and words undone
then this could perhaps have been a better world

and everything would have been timeless and reversible
and heartache and pain would have been able to be bended right
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1342.
Just For A Moment In Time Or When Mathematics Becomes Pure

The hour-work becomes rigid
with no second hand that ticks on,
are caught up in an eternal moment.
The bee stays confused and puzzled
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1343.
Without You My Life Is Empty

without you I loose the capacity to trust
that life can become better
and without you I live alone in a world full of darkness.

When your are with me, every day has got meaning
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1344.
I Could Not Guess [2]

that you could bring reality to my dreams
that you would bring happiness to each new day
and on my established life a earthquake

that would move my humanity, would shift my mind,
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1345.
Sometimes Your Eyes Are Dark Brown And Full Of Sunshine

when the tomorrows feel like only a rumour,
sometimes it’s as if my yesterdays disappear into their depths.
Sometimes your eyes are dark brown and full of sunshine
where you bring joy to a world full of pain
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1346.
Slowly I Do Adjust To Hoe Life Now Is

Slowly I do adjust to hoe life now is
but you do still remain loving me
while I am becoming aware how things fit together
Slowly I do adjust to hoe life now is
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1347.

I am devoting my whole life to you,
days that are merry and some that are blue,
some divine intervention made us meet,
to me you will always be very sweet
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1348.
When We Did Meet (Sonnetina Tre)

When we did meet I had lost all of my confidence
that had been with me through my younger years,
God himself created you as my companion in His providence
and although at a time our love has brought me tears
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1349.
Fatherland [2]

(after Mongane Wally Serote)

At a time I did call you fatherland
and there are other countries
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1350.
Interests That Lack Potential Anguish

like hunting, parachuting, motor-biking
takes precedence as we go everywhere,
when together all fear we do vanquish,
and sometimes we are in tranquility hiking,
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