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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397696" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beyond enemy lines</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above me there’s an onyx sky<br>and the tarry night is fading fast<br>and I hear the roar <br>of enemy armour<br>and the crunching of tracks<br>echoes and sound very<br>near to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An electronic signal rushes<br>thousands of kilometres far<br>and goes into a night <br>filled with bright white stars<br>like a lighting bolt<br>falling in a dark black sky<br>and branching out to where<br>it has to go<br>to a place where Jacaranda trees<br>stand in purple bloom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I match my wits against my fate<br>and crawl deeper into cover<br>of a thorn bush<br>and gird my soul to face<br>the enemy in war<br>and we lay and wait<br>and there are three of us<br>against a horde of enemy armour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The light of dawn is still grey<br>and they get very near<br>and it’s a thundering sound<br>when the first tanks<br>and armoured cars appear<br>like hungry dragons<br>coming to the feast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look up in an indigo sky<br>and eagles and vultures<br>bend down out of the sun<br>and descend in deadly haste<br>transforming into Cheetah <br>and Mirage fighter jets<br>and the radio<br>let me talk to them<br>and the end of life<br>and dire chaos<br>is unleashed unexpectedly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only the birds of prey<br>save me from the hate<br>of great steel monsters, <br>that is ready to squash and kill<br>and missile and rocket arrows<br>leap descending out of the air<br>and red and yellow flames appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After a while the planes of war<br>thunder away to the South<br>and the fire fades<br>and around us there are<br>upturned and destroyed wrecks<br>of man’s war machines<br>and a slaughtering of humans<br>and the smell of death<br>cuts right through my breath, <br>as if it wants to engulf<br>and I retch and feel inhuman<br>and my comrades smile bravely<br>and say very well done<br>and around me <br>all other life is gone, <br>but for the three of us.</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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and the tarry night is fading fast
and I hear the roar 
of enemy armour
and the crunching of tracks
echoes and sound very
near to me.

An electronic signal rushes
thousands of kilometres far
and goes into a night 
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