<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397799" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dad, sometimes when I dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dad, sometimes when I dream<br>it is as if I remember your voice, <br>as if the hairs on my arms again rise<br>like when you read the poem <br>about the cannibal to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">finding me on the polished red porch<br>where my brother cornered me<br>with a open hosepipe<br>and I did not want to go into the house</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as he would follow me in to it<br>and he and you and I, <br>everyone laughed<br>like naughty children</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if we would on a weekend<br>get into the shining black car, <br>drive to the Vaal River<br>to find a angling place near to Villiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there next to the stream dig out earthworms<br>for bait, stringing corn<br>to a hook<br>and you would cast my line out very far</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but much too early you turned into earth<br>and your spirit is resting, where you lie unaware<br>and I am still reaching out to you<br>as if I again want you to embrace me.</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=397799" data-title="Dad, sometimes when I dream de Gert Strydom" data-description="Dad, sometimes when I dream it is as if I remember your voice, as if the hairs on my arms again rise like when you read the poem about the cannibal to me finding me on the polished red porch where my brother cornered me with a open hosepipe and..."></div> </div> </div>

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