Gert Strydom Poems

You hair hangs curling
like flower shoots
in auburn strings
past your shoulders.
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The future is here
and I am beginning to fear
that the end of life as I know it
is very near
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As long as there’s oppression
and no comprehension of merit at all,
as long as unqualified and uneducated people
run the country and government into the ground,
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Let South Africa be our country again
and South Africans from all over the world
stream back,
to dream here like before,
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When I stood on Pharos
and locked my hand on Proteus,
he changed from man to snake to dragon
and terrible fear went through my thoughts.
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If love is just
a chemical reaction
then how do a scientist explain
the though process
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If every thing can be explained by science
and no God exist
then please explain
the human mind
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May it be given that this pain
now disappear
and that out of this sorrow
healing will come.
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From the time that you died
I have looked for your sign
and at times it’s dull and distant,
but now it’s bright
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I will die and go to my mother
where her white house stand against the mountains,
without any further fail
I will take my car and to the road.
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