Nobody Do Understand Me Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Paul van Ostaijen)

Sometimes it's as if nobody can understand me,
although everything in my life is simple
and for others I do go on dark ways
but in all of this I do need you.
Nobody has over my state any advice
where I do touch things and it does bring no comprehension,
not even one out of all the people that do talk to me
and in all of this I am very alone between everyone,
when my whole body do tremble in an unknown fear,
where that which comes to me is evil and totally lawless
and I wish that things could be turned around
but still I do realise the greater goal and meaning:
where that which strikes me comes as the human lot
and on my knees I stand before God.

[Reference: "Niemand" (Nobody)by Paul van Ostaijen.]