Eclipse Of The Sun (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after P. J. Philander)

Slowly and silently moves the patch of darkness,
do reduce the sun to only a sickle-bow
where the moon covers everything of the sun,
all of the sun is wiped out up high,
when a bleak and cold twilight and then darkness do come,
while bellowing the cows do return to their fold,
but the donkeys and sheep in all of this are silent
and only human are busy loosing their way,
where even the light of God and Jesus is dark
as if a gigantic unearthly shadow is creeping nearer,
where it is working with occult knowledge in secret,
do sneak into the thoughts and expectations of man:
where man stops believing like a child in God,
while hope is shattered and also God and His omnipotence.

[Reference: "Sonsverduistering" (Eclipse of the sun)by P. J. Philander.]

© Gert Strydom