Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

Maybe my eyes want to see you again like then
with the late afternoon sun falling behind you,
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(for Annelize)

Like a lizard clings to a small crack
you are gone and then do come back.
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(for Annelize)

At daylight she runs into my arms
the world lies open without harm.
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Love cannot be captured,
mapped or referenced
in the essence of how it exists
of how in real life it actually is
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The nature of love sneaks up
like a soldier in the bush and veldt,
over small streams, through thickets,
past boulders, through dry riverbeds,
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(for Annelize)

When I come to the bedroom and find you
there is a soft impression on your face,
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All of Arthur's knights were great men of courage
that together in friendship did their lives against the Romans wage
but the greatest, the most beloved by all was Sir Lancelot du Lac
who drove them back to Hadrian's wall in great rage.
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