Gert Strydom Poems

The worst contamination at first did start
in the Orange Free State at a church meeting
with infected people hugging and greeting
and now the government is not very smart.
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I will protect with everything in my might,
where now I am praying for God's grace,
that His help will be present in every place
while this deadly virus is out of sight
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My Lord, You know that the virus
is not yet at its worst peak
and over everything You do bare knowledge
as You are even aware of each small thing.
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No one is to this deadly virus totally immune
but our hope and trust in God is still strong
and probably real flue will come in icy June
while our days in this horrid time runs along
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With the grace and mercy of the Lord God
I wish to you the crystal-bright morning sky,
the doves that coo in love in the berry-trees,
the bees that buzz on the morning breeze,
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Patience I have got to learn
to handle a lock-down that I did not earn,

where without you meaningless it seems especially,
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As if it\s a great unending adventure,
daily we search for life's essence,
do not realise that we are in God's presence
where He does our imperfections endure.
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I now truly wish it to be next to never
to be missing you like this again
but from a virus the world is full of pain
where our love is something that last forever
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Outside no children play as they always do in the street,
there are far too little cars driving up and down in it
and with the corona-virus time passes far too slowly,
Everything is like an end-time scene almost left behind
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For years while I d did on God's salvation wait
from racism, cringing and envy I was set free
while life did not turn out how I wanted it to be.
Where churchmen did me as insubordinate berate,
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