The Pastor (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after S. J. Pretorius)

He knows the glances on faces well,
do know about pain, fear and insanity from very near,
do constantly visit hospitals, old-age-homes and mental institutions
where he gets to do with the incidents of destiny,
do notice people that are lost and totally lonely,
do cross in the early morning hours sometimes the streets of the city,
pain, fear and despair is no secret to him
and sometimes people in their poverty are totally abandoned,
where they live in great wretchedness in their nights and in their days,
as if none of their prayers do go to God,
they are dumbfounded with many unanswered great questions
and others that do not want to know Him exit in their conceit,
others do struggle with their own lot
and in this some do know the Lord God very well.

[Reference: "Ou dominee" (The old referent)by S. J. Pretorius.]

© Gert Strydom