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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398148" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Here I am, a man that is world-weary (in answer to T.S. Eliot)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here I am, a man that is world-weary, <br>in a month without rain<br>and passion and the pain<br>are still aflame and burning in me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the gates of death, destruction and desolation<br>I did in my youth trod<br>fired a rifle, a canon and whatever gun in angry shot<br>and then had a obligation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to be true to my country, to be true to you<br>but now I am getting weary<br>while life is slowly getting eerie<br>as if it’s coming to an end, as if I have lost the glue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that has hold my body and my spirit together<br>and whatever waits in the new day<br>is coming from the hand of the new government to bother<br>my fellow countrymen and I and still God do I obey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We live in times of signs and wonders <br>in the technological new age, <br>but my fellow men is at rage<br>as if they are getting orders </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that is swaddled in darkness<br>to maim, to rob and kill<br>driving every white man to the edge of the abyss<br>as if it is to them an immense thrill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III<br>but still there are many blessings<br>flowing from the hand of God<br>that I, this poor sod<br>of a human being see every day in my awakening</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and with careful hands <br>we try to build a future<br>but I feel like an old horse led to the pasture<br>in a place of pitiless lands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and from shoelaces we build<br>try and produce something great<br>as if we are masters of some or other guild<br>knowing that time is running out and we cannot wait</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in a world where this knowledge<br>is not comprehended by everyone<br>where the world of yesterday is totally gone, <br>we try to earn a living and to live on standing at the edge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V<br>of a darkening abyss<br>and with courage, without any fear<br>we see the new morning drawing near<br>as if it is</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the age and time that a whole nation has waited on<br>and while the battle begins we comprehend that the fighting<br>is not left to us alone and that it’s spreading<br>from the very hand of God, that His armies are marching on</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the thousand thoughts and small deliberations<br>will not lead us to victory<br>nor any arms we take up in our iniquity <br>as we are only mere men in His mighty considerations</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with love and understanding and in truth <br>we have to wait on His salvation<br>coming to our wrecked nation<br>and every one even the youth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">have got to comprehend<br>that the battle will in due time<br>draw to an end<br>that in this world of hardship and crime, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">salvation will be coming from a power supreme and divine<br>and that His righteousness is overpowering<br>even in impossible situations still conquering<br>and that His covenant stays through time without any decline.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Gerontion by T.S. Eliot.]</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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Here I am, a man that is world-weary, 
in a month without rain
and passion and the pain
are still aflame and burning in me.

At the gates of death, destruction and desolation
I did in my youth trod
fired a rifle, a canon and whatever gun in ang..."></div>
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