Gert Strydom Couplet Poems

Spend your time with me until the night end
as we attend a party at the house of a friend
smile and talk to me as if I am someone else
laugh merrily at the jokes our host tells,
while you dance with me where the stairs bend,
spend your time with me until the night end.
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(for Daleen)

As memories of you forever live on
even when from you I am at times gone
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Far too quickly the years together had gone
and now destiny had forced her to be alone.
She had loved her husband without constraint
but on this planet life was feeble and faint
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While in a loving embrace you touch me
between us there is a kind of tranquillity,
while I see the beauty of you kind face,
between our mouths there is little space
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When the world changes from what it was before
when men grow to the duties they exist for,
things do become very much better still,
when people have freedom of their own will
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I am devoting my whole life to you,
days that are merry and some that are blue,
some divine intervention made us meet,
to me you will always be very sweet
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She brings me the greatest kind of delight
in her presence every day and night,
at times we are totally in unison
in our acts and thoughts as the days go on,
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Like some roots anchoring the same big tree
in life you do constantly anchor me
at times when it is really very dark
your very presence covers me like bark
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Now that the year is growing kind of old
when the true story of Jesus we are told,
we are living up to a day of giving
while daily we hear joyful birds singing
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