For A Long Time Poem by Gert Strydom

For a long time
I have been wondering
about the meaning of words,
about situations where actions intervene,

about love that lasts forever
and lovers that come and go,
about life and death
where destiny takes control

and still I do not know
the reasons why
things do happen,

but then I do realise
that I am only seeing life
and the picture of it
at very close range,

that whatever does happen,
wherever life does go
my omnipotent Lord and God
is still totally in control.