Gert Strydom Poems

Outside the pea-seedlings are ankle-high where they grow,
while in the April-autumn the sun much more dimly glow.

Days do come where the heat with vapour rises from the tar
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When after a day's work I feel tired
you make me feel as if I am the only man,
as if by you all day I have been desired,
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What an impact in our lives has destiny,
where in this time you are away from me,

where we are to a virus infection consigned,
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Even if from each other we are totally alone
our love remains sincere are written in black on white,
the impact of our true love does continuously work
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It's as if every human being now stand handed over
and too painful I am surprised and amazed,
while secretly a virus carries on,
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Bloody red gleams the sun at the horizon
where another new morning full of promises comes,
where the beauty of nature leaves me speechless,
while I hear the call of a boubou shrike
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Where You do draw me constantly much closer to You
like a father You want to draw me against Your chest,
it's You that gives everything that I have and I am
and I know that in this severe time You do still care,
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My Lord, I do still love her,
in my body, soul and spirit she is active
and I ask that you take this love to Your own wonder
as love is a strange kind of thing
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I cannot help to more and more love you
and wish to be giving you bunches of roses
while I miss you with everything that I do
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I viewed you in the summer of our lives,
I did trust on our love and on the Lord God,
hoped with my heart and mind without fear,
on the summer-sun that would stay in the years,
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