We Do Live In A World Poem by Gert Strydom

We do live in a world where almost everything
do strike at, hunt and prey upon something else,
to satisfy a inherent hunger,
then do consummate with each other,
to constantly procreate more of the same species,
in a cruel urge for survival.
A diversity of creatures teem on earth
and are bound by seasons are caught in cycles
while the earth continually in orbit
does rush through the universe

but yet man is unique and different,
formed in the very image of the Lord God
as a being with values and a point of view
that is hard-wired in him
to make a better place of his world,
to love to the essence
of what love really is
and to know about the essence of existence
that the Lord in His own time
will demand accountability
of all thoughts, dreams, words and deeds,
that a better greater place
called paradise
lies just a bit further in the perspective.