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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397796" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Crying against the wind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw boys growing up as <br>Christians, <br>learning about God, <br>being taught at school, <br>to respect<br>about discipline, <br>to stretch the mind<br>and the boys were young and innocent<br>and for us there were peace.<br>We slept with unlocked doors, <br>the police did their job<br>to the best of their ability, <br>but the world changed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the effects<br>of the terrorist bomb<br>in church street<br>that smote the innocent<br>people in the street<br>and young and old<br>men, women <br>scarred, mutilated, maimed, <br>and cut into bits and pieces<br>by shrapnel and the deadly<br>rain of flying glass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw an academic hospital<br>filled in every hall, <br>and the few doctors<br>and paramedics and sisters and nurses<br>and accountants, clerks, <br>and office people<br>issuing disaster cards<br>and admitting the living.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw young boys forced to become<br>a part of a deadly war machine, <br>and they were barbered, drilled, cursed<br>and trained to be the best soldiers, <br>learning discipline, <br>the strength found in oneself, <br>about friendship<br>and suffering the consequences<br>of killing humans beings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw young men<br>playing Russian roulette<br>and at times<br>wishing to be dead<br>and I saw boys<br>becoming better persons<br>than they were<br>and starting to be<br>true believers<br>of the almighty One<br>and others turning <br>into the worst<br>kind of human beings<br>and losing all religion, <br>Integrity and decency<br>and the madness of hate<br>taking its toll</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw boys going<br>through dense bush, <br>living in the field, <br>tracking and destroying deadly terrorists<br>as just another day’s work, <br>driving armed vehicles <br>and battle tanks, <br>fighting against great odds<br>and winning every battle<br>and the war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw war, <br>the destruction, <br>the desolation that it brings, <br>the suffering of the innocent, <br>the savage carnage<br>and dead enemies<br>in great numbers<br>and people with shot off<br>legs and arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw friends die, <br>shot to pieces, <br>toasted by prosperous projectiles, <br>smashed by mortars<br>and killed <br>in most of the ways that war brings<br>and politicians lying and deposing<br>each other<br>and the world changed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw religious fanatics<br>killing innocent people, <br>crashing planes into buildings, <br>getting the war<br>that they begged for, <br>dying the death<br>which they sought<br>and innocent bystanders<br>paying the toll<br>for their deeds<br>and the world changed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the borders being thrown open<br>to all of Africa, <br>criminals streaming in, <br>selling drugs, running prostitution, <br>lost two cars<br>to robbers that the insurance<br>did not pay<br>and my best friend<br>left the country<br>after a hijacking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw children<br>smoking marijuana, doing crack cocaine, <br>injecting themselves with heroine<br>living like vagrants, <br>whoring around, <br>robbing from their parents, <br>braking into houses, <br>escaping from rehabilitation, <br>going to jail, <br>losing the reasons to live, <br>desperately trying to get the next fix<br>and dying from drugs and Aids.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw reverse racism<br>that changed laws, <br>discrimination, <br>white people with degrees<br>and experience without work, <br>while untrained black people<br>brought every government department<br>but the taxman<br>almost to a standstill<br>and foreign black aliens from all over Africa<br>having greater rights<br>and electricity being cut<br>and the country was in darkness<br>and the people lived in poverty<br>and tatters<br>while they thought about what they had lost<br>and nobody was counting the cost<br>and the oppressed were crying in vain <br>against the wind<br>and waiting for the rain<br>that brings life back again.</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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I saw boys growing up as 
Christians, 
learning about God, 
being taught at school, 
to respect
about discipline, 
to stretch the mind
and the boys were young and innocent
and for us there were peace.
We slept with unlocked doors, 
the police d..."></div>
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