Apocrypha: Psalm 42: I Am (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Hennie en Maretha Maartens)

My Lord, I know that you de really exist
and that you are all wonderful and good things,
this is how I do comprehend you
and the name I AM of You is no secret,
that You are the word that calls things from the nought,
where everything has with You a origin and do come to existence
and you are the One who died for me and who do cover my sins,
do leave me daily speechless with the beauty in life
but this name, I AM, do have a certain kind of incomprehensibility
where in your omnipotence it can include everything imaginable,
it has got the mysterious things of beginnings and endlessness
where only in holy purity it does include all things,
still it's in my human simplicity that I continually do find You,
in the language of a mere mortal and of a small child.

[Reference: "Oorsprong" (Origin)by Hennie en Maretha Maartens.]
© Gert Strydom