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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398742" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lord, You Have Got My Country In Your Hand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, you have got my country in your hand, <br>have broken my whole world that’s around me, <br>stripped it, the precipice is everywhere<br>and have also taken my whole career.<br>Like the apostle Paul I stand in your light, <br>are blinded, try to get some direction, <br>but am smitten down upon this old earth<br>with a kind of pain that cuts right through me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">still sight is being revealed to me<br>and where I pray, fall humble at your feet<br>you know everything, keep protecting me<br>as the great ruler of the universe.<br>Sometimes it feels like a life sentence, <br>but now I really know the true meaning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now I really know the true meaning <br>of being your child, your adopted son, <br>in the night around me, I know no fear<br>when everything suddenly is worthless<br>and destiny firmly, definitely<br>takes my property, wife and her children, <br>with my life broken as if it cannot heal<br>my country rejects me as if I am missing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but I had to come to a turn around, <br>while I still see your bright light shining, <br>that life sometimes brings a kind of poverty<br>had to become my own dim reality, <br>I had to wander in the black darkness, <br>I had to learn to only hold your hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had to learn to only hold your hand, <br>how long do I have to beg for mercy, <br>do I have to trust you only blindly, <br>when real demons reach with their hands to me? <br>As a human stand against this rebellion, <br>when my own world is declining with me, <br>it feels as if darkness folds all over me, <br>not if Michael is conquering at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The onslaught shows that I am straight on target, <br>that my poems make the enemy vulnerable, <br>I have to know from the sheer fierceness <br>that you do win, I am touching crisis points<br>but teach me to trust childlike upon you, <br>without my poor faith in you abating.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without my poor faith in you abating<br>when I take the road leading to salvation, <br>let me then hold onto your mighty hand, <br>even if great evil is around me, <br>even if I am picking a thorny cane, <br>even if time passes far too quickly, <br>it feels I am taking an endless road<br>but I will get true salvation from you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where all my life is braided together, <br>trapped in a nest of quite painful thorns, <br>it is you that decide over my lot, <br>each day I learn a new kind of lesson, <br>things get right very slowly, bit by bit<br>when you free me, when you show me the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you free me, when you show me the way<br>when the night is dark, radiates nothing, <br>it looks as if I am deteriorating, <br>when the small golden moon wanders away<br>your pure light will still fall upon me<br>where my life is like a bright small flower, <br>with destiny thundering in destruction, <br>I become somewhat dead and even dumb, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">do not know how to get out of it all, <br>will you then still be leading me further<br>to where the sun rises, is bright again, <br>past my own fear and all of my conceit, <br>do you still stay with me, when I am down, <br>in the wet road with lamps in a dim row? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the wet road with lamps in a dim row<br>the faint light reflects from the falling rain, <br>tonight it is where I get purity, <br>stand washed somewhat clean and pure<br>against the pattering, falling water<br>in which there is a great kind of healing, <br>you understand me and are washing me, <br>are bringing sincerity, forgiveness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while my deceit washes away from me, <br>with neon lights surrounded by great fog<br>I am freed by dropp for dropp that falls down<br>as if in the storm I find purification, <br>you again bring me back to conversion, <br>in no exposure, hero veneration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In no exposure, hero veneration<br>praise that the angel of darkness brings, <br>can I sing his lustre or of his works.<br>Only to you, God, I am giving glory.<br>To you I aim my gifts, so insignificant<br>as a kind of love, as appreciation<br>as you are protecting this wanderer, <br>make deep words sprout from me that circle out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Almighty Lord, I want to sing a psalm<br>about your love that is self-sacrificing<br>where you are still ruling everywhere, <br>about you as a living parable<br>that reaches with truth through all the darkness, <br>Lord, you have got my country in your hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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Lord, you have got my country in your hand, 
have broken my whole world that’s around me, 
stripped it, the precipice is everywhere
and have also taken my whole career.
Like the apostle Paul I stand in your light, 
are blinded, try to get som..."></div>
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