Gert Strydom Poems

My Lord, You do promise to straighten paths,
I beg You to heal me from my sin
where in the iniquity of others their hate lies on me,
where it's as if I do only know the bitter side of life,
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Last night I looked at you intimate and honestly
and in the sober glance of today,
it's still with the same sweet enchantment
and there is something past this scope that I do remember.
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Through years I came to know your lovely ways,
you fill my heart to its breadth, depth and height.
Many little things you do and say are out of sight
while you do act in solitude with innocent grace,
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A wedding brought you to my gate
and green-brown I glanced your eyes
as if you do hold the cosmos in their depths
and suddenly my heart jerked in me,
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You are not just a biological machine,
you are a sentient living loving being
who act, talk and walk in ways serene.
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In your green-brown eyes I see a tender light
a glance that lingers just for a single moment,
with your pupils much darker than midnight,
with golden flecks sparkling like an ornament.
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(in answer to Fanie Olivier)

My old blue motorbike roars up the hill
when I bring my heart and a pumpkin as presents,
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(in answer to Ingrid Jonker)

In the eyes and on the face of each woman
memories come of our times together,
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No matter how destiny measures life out,
however circumstance in our days are,
even if at times you do cry and shout
when from your loving presence I am far,
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You are my all season girl and wife
who flowers constantly more lovely than spring,
the one who constantly leaves me speechless with her love,
the one who I trust with everything in my heart.
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