When I Stopped At Home One Day Poem by Gert Strydom

When I Stopped At Home One Day



Early in the morning
I gave the children food
and a goodbye kiss
to my still sleeping wife.

At times I dropped them
at school
and turned with the road
to the highway
to get to work

and when I stopped at home one day
there were no children
that came running out,
no wife knocking
at the outside door

and all the dogs were suddenly silent
and life took
its own course
and every thing
had passed just too quickly.

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Gert Strydom

Gert Strydom

Johannesburg, South Africa
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