Gert Strydom Poems

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I want to remember you eternally,
I want to know you better than you do know me,
continually come back to you on each weekend,
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Being locked-down on my very own,
it's almost as bad as been left behind,
while where the death virus is, is unknown,
where I do struggle real answers to find.
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a Enemy soldier lies motionless
and his limbs are twisted,
reaching for the last
energy of live
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At times I dream
that I fall and fall,
into the unending abyss
without finding any place
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When love has gone
a person is frozen
and how deep and far
the chill goes,
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From where does life
spring?

If not from God,
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In Angola I wondered
how the land of the free
had the power,
to launch soldiers
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Last night I saw the spine of the night,
I saw stars glow, glitter and jump far away
I did wonder about a God, who creates pure light,
who comes with deliverance to those who stray.
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With my mother of 86, half-cripple with me,
that waits in the long line outside Strubenvale Pick n Pay
an employee of Pick n Pay passes angry,
screams deafening with all her might:
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It’s a long while back and yet it stays,
how she draws delightful on a cigarette
and drink a glass,
of yellow sparkling st. Anna with me.
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