Gert Strydom Poems

Mother, far too quickly the days are running past
and it’s as if it was only yesterday
that we did live in the old white house against the hillock
and in all of the bad times
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My Lord, sometimes I do forget
that You do know about every feeling and emotion that I have,
that You do have knowledge of all things
and do have the answers even before I do ask,
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As a boy I wished for the kind of skin
that never could get hurt.
As a boy I wished for for the kind of shirt
that mother would not have to rub in
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My Lord, sometimes there is only silence
when I do talk to You
and sometimes I feel totally abandoned by man and God
as if a cold unconcern
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about happy moments we both have known
as if I do long to see you again
and at the times that I am on my own
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My Lord, if I do forget that Your law
do express Your character and love
let me then still experience Your grace
and give me the fixed faith of a child
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I asked God for a wife
and then you came
to fight for me and pray with me
and together to cry and laugh
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that spirals up to You
on which at times I do stumble and fall
and then do get up again to head on.
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(in answer to Vernie Plaatjies)

Past the blue sky, moon and stars
I long for you
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Each morning when the night is swept away
with extreme tenderness I find you next to me
and you bring something special to each day
to the way that it is supposed to be
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