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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397975" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Finding your god</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After your father’s demise<br>you didn’t have a god<br>but you had to find one<br>or you’re writing of children’s stories<br>in the nether world of Toeka <br>(a place far away and long gone) <br>would come undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So we went to caves<br>to view Bushmen paintings<br>drove through Namaqualand <br>visiting quiver trees<br>to get a pincushion-type quiver<br>to fit your hunting arrows in<br>with which you wanted to hunt your god down<br>past Gifberg with its white poisonous daisies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">right through the cruel sea<br>where only here and there <br>some clumps of hardy trees<br>grows defiantly against the Namib Desert<br>and carrying on through a raging sandstorm<br>with its suffocating warm wind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you though that we<br>would surely find him at God’s finger<br>near Asab, where you believed<br>supernatural powers prevail<br>and the pillar of rock<br>with the narrow neck<br>pointing up into the heavens<br>just looked like erosion to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Further on near the Kuiseb River<br>you believed the canyon to be ablaze<br>as if your god was walking there<br>but still he was nowhere</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and at Okaukuejo we went to the magic forest<br>of Moringa ovalifolia trees<br>and you were certain that now<br>we were drawing near<br>as these trees looked<br>as if they were flung out of paradise<br>landing upside down<br>where they were still growing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and at the Etosha pan<br>we saw a large herd of Oryx<br>drinking water<br>and couldn’t understand<br>how they lived in the desert<br>and you were sure<br>that your god<br>was sustaining them somehow<br>but still no other signs<br>of your god was seen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we drove back to the Kalahari desert <br>where near the Orange river <br>we found a stretch of white sand<br>about nine kilometres long<br>right there in the normal red desert </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I went up a dune at the southern face<br>and while I walked <br>it made a strange sound<br>and it roared when I sailed down <br>and you where awe struck<br>at the voice of your god</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the desert<br>with the roaring sand<br>you heard his voice<br>when you walked there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I had to lock it <br>in preserved-fruit bottles<br>with lids welded together<br>and a tiny hole drilled through<br>and filled one jar with that white sand<br>and when sealed air tight<br>it looked like a huge egg timer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but its singing roared<br>into a humming sound<br>and your were sure<br>that your god <br>was captured and found<br>and from now on<br>you could hear his voice <br>whenever you wanted to.</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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you didn’t have a god
but you had to find one
or you’re writing of children’s stories
in the nether world of Toeka 
(a place far away and long gone) 
would come undone.

So we went to caves
to view Bushmen painti..."></div>
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