<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Carrion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">a Enemy soldier lies motionless<br>and his limbs are twisted, <br>reaching for the last<br>energy of live<br>and a hand still holds a gun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blood and guts<br>are splattered about, <br>where a mortar bomb<br>hit home<br>and some flies gather.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The strong sulphur smell<br>mixed with fried human<br>burns my nose, <br>where smoke rises<br>from a shot out<br>enemy battle tank.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another tank stand moveless<br>with its barrel<br>still aiming somewhere<br>and the remains<br>of its occupants hatched inside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">About a hundred Cuban tanks<br>and twice that much<br>enemy armoured cars, <br>stand lifeless in the African bush.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The battle scene is a graveyard<br>and my Ratel tank destroyer drives past, <br>to cross the Lomba river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before nightfall I fight<br>the darkness of my soul<br>and struggle with God<br>and to this day, <br>still no one can answer why.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: => Ratel tank destroyer=>Ratel ZT-3 (the anti-tank guided missile version) . Reference are given here to the “battle for Africa, ” fought by 61 South African mechanized battalion group and 32 South African battalion group against four brigades of the Soviet-led FAPLA forces (the 47th,59th,16th and 21st brigades) in Angola in August 1987.]</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=397740" data-title="Carrion de Gert Strydom" data-description="a Enemy soldier lies motionless and his limbs are twisted, reaching for the last energy of live and a hand still holds a gun. Blood and guts are splattered about, where a mortar bomb hit home and some flies gather. The strong sulphur smell mix..."></div> </div> </div>

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