Gert Strydom Poems

(in answer to Lina Spies)

If I could catch you in a verse
no beauty or depth would be able to express you,
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Blessed is the time that we do together spend,
where much more than the world you are to me
and sheer magic do nature to your beauty lend
where with you every day of life I do want to be,
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

Where with intense analysis you do look at every word
you do at times feel to me like a darling full of cunning
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Even the lives of my worst enemies are in Your hand
and no power can stand against Your will and Your love.
Where daily without reason people do come in anger against me
they are lighting inextinguishable fires in their own lives,
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My Lord, from my childhood days I have seen You as my companion,
where as a mere child I hold fatherless to your strong hand
and where from prehistory You did reckon out my days
I ask You to protect my darling, as You do know what she means to me,
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(in answer to Lina Spies)

From my childhood I do remember Easter as:
hundreds of children that do play together and sing choruses
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God did make a promise when sin did come
that a saviour, a lamb to sacrifice will be provided
and the whole Old Testament does point to Him
where it speaks about worship and returning to God,
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(in answer to S. J. Pretorius)

In the hearts of people in a crowd
where the traffic continually do stream forth
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When you washed your hands,
did deliver a righteous innocent man,
the creator Lord God
to a angry, revolting crowd
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When they nailed God to the cross
it did have great meaning to Nicodemus
(the Pharisee who knew the scripture)
who in secret visited Jesus at night
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