Gert Strydom Poems

Full of revenge the animal started walking,
while the wind jerked off curtains down the street
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Ages flicker in the hot fire
where I sit in the bar
time passes slowly hour-by-hour,
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About love I had been very naive, believed like Visser,
tried to keep my life for you
as if it comes from the Creator’s hand from above,
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So tell me Louis, you allege:
“I went to look at the remarks
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(after John Donne)

From the start although it had been
great ecstasy and our loving
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(after John Donne)

What greatness did we experience,
what joys did we know
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Send me some token to remain
as a sign of the feelings which between us grow
and in years and times of pain
I will of this as a confirmation know.
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I adore you without any fear,
try to day after day only to live for you,
as you are a part of my thoughts and my flesh,
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A deadly virus does all of humanity scare
and in all of this I do really for you care
where life is now in an awful kind of state
and to stop the virus seems far too late
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My God, do not from the world draw Your protection away.
where from a virus there is now illness, death and pain.
As a child and young man you heard me when I did pray
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