Gert Strydom, 30 kwietnia 2014
I am not the person
that You have destined me to be
and eagerly I want to walk on the right way,
do and say the right things
but before I can find myself
I do fail You my God
and then I wonder where to start again?
Gert Strydom, 30 kwietnia 2014
When the morning peeps shyly through the window
driving away the twilight with the first rays
then the hot fingers draw lines over your body
but still you are swept away to dreamland
and when you turn and move suddenly
then you lie right against me
and I see you open your eyes with new messages
where for moments we are joined.
Gert Strydom, 29 kwietnia 2014
There are times that I do not notice You
when a friend is robbed in his own house,
when another motorist tries to push me off the road,
when a toothache almost drives me off my head
but then the weavers and sparrows in the garden
chatter and twitter
and the doves sing their songs of praise
about everything that comes from Your hand
and the deep red colour of roses do astonish me,
and I notice an iris flowering unexpectedly in spring,
and a bush of daisies carries yellow and orange flowers
and it’s as if the daylilies dance in the wind
and with every beautiful sunrise
I experience Your presence
and know that the powers of darkness
are increasing their rebellion
but that You are still standing omnipotent at my side
and the impression of Your love is in everything around me.
Gert Strydom, 28 kwietnia 2014
Lord, here where I stand on my knees
I want to stretch out my hand
that Your omnipotent hand can take mine
and help me find the kind of faith
to believe like a mere child
without any certainty
and keep trusting that You
do only want the best for me.
Gert Strydom, 25 kwietnia 2014
My whole world is sometimes in a jumble
and when things want to fall apart
I do not really comprehend
how everything fits together
but then I do remember the small things
that You are doing daily for me
and that You constantly keep bringing answers,
even when darkness is around me.
Gert Strydom, 24 kwietnia 2014
My Lord, some people say that You do not exist,
that You and Your crucifixion and resurrection
is but a fable
Others see You as an inaccessible, cruel God
who sits unapproachable
as a age-old man on a throne
and then there are those that say
that you are female
and others that do believe
that every thing in nature
do possess a part of Your godliness
and they believe that at a time
a person becomes part of You and looses the own identity
and others do believe that you have extradited
an imperfect world to its own nemesis
and that You turn Your back constantly on everyone and everything
but I do know You, for who You really are,
do experience Your presence constantly
and in Your word there is another image
of love that is selfless that I do find
and I see someone that goes to broken persons
bringing healing, love and peace.
Gert Strydom, 23 kwietnia 2014
(after Dorothy Parker)
Love causes far more pain
than mere sticks and stones
and when from your life she is gone
her memories and sometimes spite remains
Choir:
From sad experience I do know
that there might not be a more painful woe
than a female’s scorn, her anger and hate
and be very careful before it’s too late.
If you do not truly love her, then be aware
as with her you do really dare
as a female is a really dangerous pet
that does not have the ability to forget.
Even if your love is past and through
you are still trapped in a kind of fix,
she will throw at you more harmful things than bricks,
she will ransom you to what she thinks is due.
[Reference: “Ballade of the unfortunate man” by Dorothy Parker.]
Gert Strydom, 23 kwietnia 2014
When He was hungry in the desert
every hungry man spoke along with the demon
when Satan appeared to Him.
When the whole world, the city lay beneath His feet
when that demon wanted Him to jump from that height
He did not want to use His own Godly power,
the light of God shined over Him.
God’s word was unlimited in His heart
when He was hungry in the desert,
when He did not want to create breads like the demon wanted
and did not want to tempt God.
When that demon wanted Him to jump from that height
He was already smitten by every hungry urge
with the cities of every human being beneath Him in the distance.
When Satan appeared to Him
(in His time of tiredness and amok)
the whole world was beneath Him
and He did not want to tempt God
and suddenly His hunger did disappear
when the words of God was in His mouth.
When He was hungry in the desert,
when He stood on the peak of a very high mountain
Jesus did know that He had to suffer,
the whole world was beneath Him,
the power of evil was sophisticated,
and the devil subtle with each suggestion.
When Satan appeared to Him
Jesus did know that He could not avoid the crucifixion.
To express His love for His fellow-man
Jesus did know that He had to suffer
and the light of God was on His face
and the horizon was the border of his eye.
When He was hungry in the desert,
when Satan appeared to Him
He did not want to impress anyone
when the whole world, the city lay beneath His feet.
To express His love for His fellow-man
He did not want to use His own godly power.
Gert Strydom, 23 kwietnia 2014
When the one who was truth,
whose commands
created light and everything
hanged crucified
selfless He asked God
to forgive them
who was crucifying Him innocently
and as darkness befall Him
He cried: “My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?”
and He the Son of God died
for the sins of the world.
Gert Strydom, 22 kwietnia 2014
When my eyes do not remember the gazes in yours,
when my ears become deaf to your voice,
when my hands are without feeling
for the softness of your body,
when your words do not overwhelm me anymore,
when your smile do not enchant my day
then the mother-earth
will be the place where I rest,
where I will be aware of nobody and nothing.
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