Gert Strydom Poems

We will
seek the great thrill,
surf in hurricane waves
experience the surf, the swell
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When tea is made at half past seven
and again at eleven
he comes from the grass where he has been hiding
or from a tree down he comes sliding,
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In most things I am free
to make my choice
but still she tries to guide me
with her look, with her voice
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I will even forgo important things,
want to stop the pain and destruction
that life brings
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I wanted to go back to my childhood days,
wanted to play with the delight of a child,
wanted to steal ripe peaches and hide them in my shirt
and I wanted to brake away from the here and now
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Hearing the doves
cooing from the sycamore tree
constantly as if they are in love
reminds me about your tender care
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Everything that I posses does not belong to me
but is a sign of Your love and great mercy
and even all my great and good deeds
do not make me free of Your crucifixion or of blame
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The morning sun hangs bright
over the city,
in a light blue sky
and False Bay, the big flat old mountain
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Tonight I did think of you
and outside the stars were faint,
a streetlight did shine lonely
and the smell of rain was on the dust,
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when there is nowhere that I do belong
life seems lonelier than on any other day

and while other people are happy and gay
it’s just another day that comes along.
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