Gert Strydom Poems

I once went to a restaurant
called the tent
somewhere in Sea point
and the owner laid a feast
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This world does not deserve you,
nor will it be
the place where,
I to earth let them lay you.
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Where for our love I have got great hope
while a moment becomes full of power
that acts transitory during a single hour,
where all of my life is in destiny's scope,
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My love, it was on a sunny early spring day
that you did call, on the phone and did hurt me
and fluttering outside a myriad of birds did play,
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(for Annelize)

I met you on a bright hot summer day,
your smile was radiant; your eyes did gleam,
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'Wherever we are, we will be together today,
and together we will look in the evening sky,
and together we will remember
the morning of February 24.
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So it’s been twenty years,
Annelize, since we wed
and a time that no man
could ever forget.
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Of you I have a kind of knowledge
that I still do keep safe
that never can disappear from my heart,
with time its still there,
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