<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397407" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A letter arrives by registered mail</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A letter arrives by registered mail<br>and the getting of it costs nothing, <br>but the contents<br>leaves the mark of Cain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From sixteen all boys are computerized<br>and when you leave school you are not spared<br>and get a call up instruction by telegram<br>and your way is marked off, determined and ready.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like handcuffs locking for a time<br>the government has already decided for you<br>to get training and go to war<br>and from it no one escapes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are indoctrinated<br>and even chaplains tries to convert you to war<br>and tell you that you are the rod of God<br>rather than teaching you about the Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The country is threatened by a total onslaught<br>with destruction from waiting communists<br>and you are taught to shoot and kill<br>and are chased around day and night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till you stand at the moment of truth<br>and enemies are people just like you<br>at the edge of death<br>and their lives are forever past</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and everybody dies<br>and are ripped to pieces<br>young and old and people of another colour<br>and nobody escapes the destruction</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and blood stays red and wet<br>en splashed into your soul<br>and the mark of Cain never comes off<br>and nothing can remove it.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397407" data-title="A letter arrives by registered mail de Gert Strydom" data-description="A letter arrives by registered mail and the getting of it costs nothing, but the contents leaves the mark of Cain. From sixteen all boys are computerized and when you leave school you are not spared and get a call up instruction by telegram and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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