Moses [2] Poem by Gert Strydom

Moses [2]



(in answer to N.P. van Wyk Louw)

When I stood on the mountaintop
did notice the Promised Land
that enticing did lie ripe before me,
where I may not enter

pain went through my soul
as through the desert I did find the way
but my own will was my undoing
which made me to relinquish that beautiful land

but then I did wonder about what did lie over the other horizon,
beyond the blue beyond and I was aware of greater beauty
and while the known world did lie beneath my feet
my eyes were focussed on a heavenly inheritance,

I did look up at the heavenly portals,
did see a glorious world lying there.

[Reference: "Opstand" (Revolt) by N.P. van Wyk Louw.]

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