Around Us It Is Dark (Couplets) Poem by Gert Strydom

Around us it's dark in this time like night
where a deadly virus comes of which nobody has insight,

where every person as if peculiar do stand alone,
where with misery it comes to every single one,

unseen comes from China with acute distress,
as if from hell as a destroyer with death it does oppress,

but still You are here in Your invincible omnipotence,
where just over the horizon a new tomorrow I do sense,

while You are covering a great deal of humanity,
as You are full of light and this thing is not Your will to be

and even if it rages with destruction out there,
even for the leaders in their decisions You do still care,

where You are holding Your Godly hand over everybody,
even over my beautiful wife and over me.
© Gert Strydom