Gert Strydom Poems

the male lion rushes on to it
and growling chases the females away,
as it grabs the carcass and drags it along

and the females and pubs lie docile
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Children carry cellular phones and pistols,
chop others dead with swords,
are bladed by barbarians,
kill people of a different colour
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To some more a god than man
the hero walks in
with greatness depicted
in every move and stride
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Humanly we leave words on paper,
while we try to determine the language
of Him who is the core of the Bible story.
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who is dear to me
and whose thoughts
age tried to wipe out
and he looked at me
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Probius was whipped by guards until bloody,
then chained and locked in the dungeon
to convince him, to offer to gods
and when they saw him shaking with sheer pain
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however events do touch you
you do still come through the throng
to places that your heart long to go

but still after loss
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The cracking branches as it rushed in
had a shocking kind of thunder to them
and where it entered the swollen river
I heard the rushing water splashing
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Almighty God who sets the ways of people
do You see, do You daily notice
how my people do suffer?

Are You aware of the old man begging in the street,
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Next to an apple tree at a crossroad
a woman plays a song of love
which is swept away by the wind,
as she plays a cello at her thigh
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