Gert Strydom Poems

(after Totius)

From the eons You do know the path that I have got to go
You do measure my days out in the time of my trivial existence,
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In every small bird that watches me at the window
it's as if You do look at me with Your love
and like this the sparrow chirps, the dove does coo and the weaver twitter
while constantly I do think of You,
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In bliss your white body glows in the dark
where streched out you lie in your sleep
as if in another world you do embark
while an arm do me close to you keep.
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The day in front of the pulpit is in my memory
the prayer mat, you pretty in your white wedding-gown,
the chandeliers, your hand in mine I remember fondly
and the words that made you my own
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Love is like the air that we breathe in invisible
but always around us it does maintain life,
where the effects of it is visible
in words and acts and in all that we do strive
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(after Petra Müller)

I see you with the light radiating around you,
that bright glare with you hair silky-fine
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I try to penetrate your pleasant guise
without a bruise to be the hero,
but feel like a zero while I act somewhat wise,
without surprise the sun is hot on my sombrero
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Sometimes you seem collected and meek,
later in the week suddenly you do change
and life feels strange while I do seek
you out. With cheek, my life you do rearrange,
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Daily you do command the day and night in their interchange
while birds do sing the twilight orange in prayer,
at each birth you do endow the spark that gives life
where husband and wife do set blood-bonds with each other
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Daily you do command the day and night in their interchange
while birds do sing the twilight orange in prayer,
at each birth you do endow the spark that gives life
where husband and wife do set blood-bonds with each other
...