If You Keep Straying With Unhappiness (In Answer To Koos A. Kombuis) Poem by Gert Strydom

If you keep straying with unhappiness
and take the beauty out of everything
are looking for evil in everything
your life turns into a miserable story

you are wandering through the desert
where your tears disappear,
you are scorched
while the sun is shining overwhelming for others

you find thorns on the most beautiful flower,
are already old, before age sets in,
as if you are cursed by a spell
that gives words even if your are dumb

and you break Afrikaans down to clay,
as if nothing have to remain of that language and people
and you take LSD and who knows what
to find life in something

and to you life is a lost dream
as if it is allotted to another man, another guy
and your trousseau and love is buried
where nobody can explore
and you are in your own whirlpool.

[Atlantis in jou lyf (Atlantis in your body) by Koos A. Kombuis.]