Gert Strydom Poems

(in answer to George Weideman)

I cannot forget
how the Ratel IFV's and the Buffel troop carriers
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There was suddenly light, air, water that does divide
that started to exist, which reacts on His command
when He started seasons and time did start to pass
but man with His own hands He did form,
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As the coach comes to a halt
the sea stretches to the horizon,
looking blue-green and cool
while the air conditioner chills the air.
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I found Him when the darkest
of darkness was over me
and in that black night I did see
some light in the starkness
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It's now eons past at El-Karnak in the valley of sands of fire
that Pharaoh did ride on his chariot his pylons to admire
and anarchy, revolt rebellion has for centuries been loose
while the earth did continually continue on its own gyre
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There's something eerie to the morning mist
as if the world is closing around us,
about all other things have not a gist
and at the open fields away you rush
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At first light they started to climb
did later become two specks against the mountain
with the smell of snow, with boots gritting forward
the hammer that repeatedly were hitting pegs into the rock
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Who truly knows where the rain
does hold in store her shining drops
does hide her barns against the bright blue
but the omnipotent One?
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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,
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They loved each other,
more deep than emotions, mere words,
feelings, passion of care could go
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