Gert Strydom, 1 sierpnia 2012
When suddenly you came along
my whole life had changed,
unexpected my love was strong
life was rearranged
and butterflies dart everywhere
while some bees visit here and there
and butterflies
and butterflies
turn my stomach, I am without care.
When suddenly you came along
I did not know your name,
if to somebody you do belong,
but somehow our love came
your face had grace, your eyes did gleam
and your voice was like a stream
your face had grace,
your face had grace,
and you leapt into each dream.
When suddenly you came along
you were most beautiful
and with you I could not be wrong,
as my whole heart was full
of our great love on each new day
and my heart was happy and gay
of our great love,
of our great love
that not a thing could take away.
Gert Strydom, 1 sierpnia 2012
Some happy people take holidays
and its when you and I
love to dine out, to dance and play
while summer days rush by
and with delight moments drag on
and in a flash the night is gone
and with delight,
and with delight
to me you are the only one.
Some happy people take holidays
couples whose love is strong
bathe for hours in the sun’s hot rays,
together they belong
with endless love, drawing them near
when they act without any fear
with endless love,
with endless love,
and jubilant they do appear
Some happy people take holidays
while some are separate
and are set with life in their ways
but do not love or hate
to me you are like a goddess
in your new lovely rose-red dress
to me you are,
to me you are
the one that I want to caress.
Gert Strydom, 31 lipca 2012
Lord, why have I got to leave everything behind,
why must I abandon at a time and place
my darling wife and also my own will
and why have I got to go away alone,
to cover my eyes with my hands before You
and reach You as a single person;
I feel so blemished against Your pure light
and before You I stand totally alone;
You had brought love for all of my hatred.
Gert Strydom, 30 lipca 2012
It’s as if the sea is confined
where it breaks and hits in front of us
and just as unobserved
you keep standing next to me
where the sea stretches into the blue
and in silence we are watching each other
where the sea stretches,
where the sea stretches
and I enclose you in my arms.
It’s as if the sea is confined
in this small bay
and outside of it we notice a shark
but no meaning
but our love remains,
just nothing but you and I
but our love,
but our love
makes any kind of sense here.
It’s as if the sea is confined
always washes in and out here
and it keeps drawing us nearer,
while we feel great and deep things
it’s as if God Himself is among us,
and is watching us with big pity
as if God Himself,
as if God Himself
brings us here to new meaning.
Gert Strydom, 30 lipca 2012
Everywhere I searched for the words
to express the depth of my true love to you
and nowhere could I find it in a book,
I could not even say the right words,
I could not express how much I wanted you here,
I could not give depth to feelings of dearness,
I could not even lay my soul bare at your feet,
still you were in my deepest thoughts,
in days and nights that I was missing you;
you are in my joy and sadness.
Gert Strydom, 30 lipca 2012
Like frangipanis do twist to become one
you are attached to my life
and you bring bright colours to each day,
you even fix the bad times.
Gert Strydom, 30 lipca 2012
In this world where there is constant decay,
we mortals search for an immortal thing
while illness and age sweeps life away
as if in science it’s somewhere hiding
and yet as something we cannot measure,
the immaterial thing called love
we at times find as our greatest treasure
which when it’s true nothing can remove
or even its great power totally subdue
and today with your hand in mine
when we are together and I glance at you
we have found something divine
and have both never felt just like this,
in the depth of your heart it is.
Gert Strydom, 27 lipca 2012
When mere moments are holy,
when in prayer I go to You
I am surrounded by Your presence
then I see in every flower, in each small thing
even in the stars, sun and moon
that there is of You a kind of witness,
thunderbolts falling blue-white,
the wild untamed stormy wind,
trees that flower in spring,
tells me that You care about my destiny
and that You choose me out as a child
of the almighty Lord of the universe.
Gert Strydom, 27 lipca 2012
(after Koos du Plessis)
Oh Lord, when a husband and wife
in love yearned for each other
I was roused out of undetermined rest
and on a day
placed into this dark place to take form
and they do wait
that I appear in a world of decay,
somewhere in Your great unlimited universe.
You who form all things from the beginning,
who also knows everything,
I ask that where You measure out
the punishment of life to me
that You will in great love always stay with us
that You will forget the sins
that we make here as mere humans,
that You touch my parents with great joy.
[Reference: “Gebed van die Ongeborene” (Prayer of an unborn) by Koos du Plessis.]
Gert Strydom, 27 lipca 2012
(for Lucienné)
Sometimes when I kneel down for prayer in church
she comes with small tottering steps,
folds her two small arms around me
and for moments the prayer of the chief elder ends
when with Gert, Gert she gives a small cry
and her joy cuts through heart and soul.
It’s with a pouted mouth that she sometimes kisses,
looking up with small angelic eyes into mine
when maybe even in heaven there is silence
and for moments I am amazed
when her hand reaches out to mine,
as a small girl sometimes do.
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