Ballade Of The Covenant Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to D. J. Opperman)

You did create the world perfectly
when man decided to be lost in sin,
in spite of Your love, favour and friendship
they did go astray, did wander off to dark evil.

Chorus:
You are the one that brings everything to order and pure light,
who does give the beauty to each fruit, plant and flower
who does open the windows of heaven for the labourer
as Your own child and with all of this I am astonished.

You did create everything in great perfection
with times of endless happiness and fun
man brought a curse on himself
in the contempt of Your stipulations and Your law

but still You did promise Yourself as deliverance
but still further man did decline into unbelief,
did chase after sin, chaos and pleasure and shame
and then You did cleave the world open,

did shake the foundations from the inside and outside,
did only protect a hand-full against the great Deluge
caused volcanoes to burst out, turned the earth-crust over,
caused rain to pour down and did use Your Godly power

to once again bring forth order and righteousness
and yet still every small and big living thing
is destined from Your omnipotence to exist in a system,
to function as an integral part of the whole and not just as an inspiration.

In the cave, the cavern, in the backwoods and right here,
in the swamp at every reed and in the far off distance
everything does function to be able to exist as if from a master plan,
not just dreamed and left in the caprice as a loveless god

[Reference:"Kontrak" (Contract)by D. J. Opperman.]

© Gert Strydom