My Heart, Mind And Soul Is Your White Surface Poem by Gert Strydom

(after N. P. van Wyk Louw)

My heart, mind and soul is Your white surface
on which Your light at times do fall and do shine through
do make visible the darkness, each deformity
and although I am human full of defects and weak
Your selfless love does come to me a thousand times
and you do shine through my disposition in each kind of thing.

You do make my alien premonitions a reality in Your light
where my dreams and ambitions and love do be come to reality,
where You do give me signs from yesterday, today and tomorrow,
where I stand without any secrets before You,
where You do strip from me that which is harmful and that does me curtail
while just that which is good and great You do allot to me

where even that which I sometimes do think is out of my range
and that does stand on the borders of becoming reality do come to fullness
as that which in Your eyes do let me grow to a full human being
in my lost, broken days where others do despise me,
when You do make my self-conceit clear to me and like a loving father do admonish me,
while You are at work with my smallest and greatest yearnings and problems
where in Your bright light, Your greatness and love I am constantly astounded.

[Reference:"My venster is ‘n blanke vlak" (My window is a white surface)by N. P. van Wyk Louw.]

© Gert Strydom