Apocrypha: Psalm 44 (Refrain Stanza) Poem by Gert Strydom

My God, senseless people ineptly do rule over me,
You know how we do suffer and we are not free
and at times I stand in life in total dismay
but hide close to You as if these dark days will forever stay.
Decades now pass with oppression as if it will forever be
I ask like our forefathers for a great salvation
as savages are killing the commercial farmers of my nation,
I beg You Lord save my nation, save me from all iniquity,
You know how we do suffer and we are not free.

[Poet's note:More commercial farmers in South Africa have been killed than soldiers of the South African Defence Force had died in the border / bush war of the seventies and eighties.I call the killers savages as they do torture, dismember and rape while they do the killing and do act savagely.In these circumstances still the South African government want to disposes the commercial farms and the famine in Zimbabwe, which at a time had been the food-basket of Africa where similar action took place, is no kind of warning to them.The oppression that I talking about is being called Affirmative Action.The senselessness and ineptness is demonstrated by South Africa going from a first world country to a third world country with electricity continually being cut-off which the government term as power-shedding and corruption right through governmental structures happening in the last twenty-eight years.Furthermore crime is out of control.I have personally lost two cars, which had been stolen (without reimbursement from the insurance)and very narrowly escaped in a hijack attempt.All of my gardening equipment and tools (several spades/ gardening-forks/ pick-axes, rakes, a lawnmower power cable of 25 meters and even a electric edge-trimmer have been stolen along with several fishing-rods and all kinds of fishing equipment)in a break in.]