A Hallelujah (English Ballade) Poem by Gert Strydom

(for my wife, Daleen)

1
I know that David had been a man
to the depth of God's own heart
and to love you I do all that I can
but baby, where we both are apart
2
Chorus:
with all the women I knew before,
I was both guilty and also truly innocent
but baby, where love does ask for more and more.
with you it's so very different.
3
David played to God strings and a chord:
the most beautiful melody that we do not know,
in exultation with a hallelujah he praised the Lord,
who did to him generosity and His mercy show
4
and maybe human love is like this
that at times a person does loose and win
and from your first kiss I experienced bliss
while into your humanity you drew me in
5
but David saw on a rooftop her body glow
knew in his heart the thing we call love
and death he did on her husband bestow
as if forgetting the omnipotent God above
6
and she broke his throne and life,
are in the Lord\s own family line,
did become David's precious wife:
was his very own as you are mine
7
and where it comes to you and me
at times there is sorrow and pain,
even if together we are destined to be
and what love is do to me a secret remain
8
as in thoughts I hear that hallelujah ring
and like David daily I do that same God meet
hear a myriad of holy angels rejoicing sing
as universal leaders throw their crowns at His feet
9
where in this life what is between us is a mystery
a thing by which we do constantly loose and gain,
while apart we do live together and also at liberty
and from love its happiness and heartaches do remain
10
where like David I do at times in this life feel
and fleeting days are sometimes terribly blue
as too quickly life do past us spin and reel
but at times our own hallelujah still rings true.
© Gert Strydom