Gert Strydom Poems

With my feet lifted
I hang out of balance
while someone skilful observes my eyes
and a bright painful light
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I. The evening that I bite right through a molar

The evening that I bite right through a molar
with the nerve lying open,
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Sometimes you let me think
of a small girl
whose eyes are full of the shining stars,
sometimes I find
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Bittersweet day that arrives,
bittersweet the sun is burning
another man came between her and me
has broken our love down to nothing
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Easter
when Christians come together
to celebrate Christ
rising from death,
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When the Enola Gay on command
dropped her deadly bomb
unleashing moments of hell in Hiroshima
and a nuclear blast went off in destruction
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People expect the end
of this planet
to occur at Armageddon
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The hunter’s.308 Musgrave hunting rifle
lies next to him in pieces
in the faint light of the hunting lodge
where he is cleaning the weapon
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Nothing will be as wonderful, as that spring had been
the trees were full of flowers row upon row
the water in the channels reflected bright like glass
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flames spread further with destruction
from where the mountain is ablaze
running into almost every direction
with smoke causing a big haze
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