Gert Strydom Poems

At times why you love me remain unclear,
while you do believe it is meant to be.
Totally matchless is your beauty to me
and I am dumbstruck when you are near.
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It's only mere words that I write to you
when in each poem I claim love that is true.
What do remain when everything becomes transience,
when words are lost, even from my conscience,
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In you I found a woman that is true,
you possess kindness, charm and beauty
do sincerely from your heart love me
there is love in the way you act and do
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Now that the garden is covered by darkness,
you are not here to fulfil my life and it's in its starkness.

and in this time there is a black mood,
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Other people believe You remain deaf and mute,
that You come to my salvation I am resolute.
Constantly the birds around me are twittering,
doves do their songs of praise to You sing
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That on his very own man does live
in this time becomes self-conceit that do no answers give,

where through a deadly virus we are living,
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Where this Corona virus in China do originate,
nothing is let out that it exists until it's far too late

and it spreads worldwide and everywhere attacks bit by bit,
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The wind bears the fragrance of rain
almost brings the last part of summer back again,

where some of my roses in autumn are still flowering,
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(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

This lock-down where we now are apart
let me take images from the heart
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You made changes to the house,
did again paint it on the in and outside,
hanged new curtains and lace-curtains,
and the roof-tiles are another colour.
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