<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398208" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I am a farmer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a farmer<br>who are up before first light<br>and I drink my coffee<br>between the cows in the stable<br>where milking machines <br>are doing their thing sucking<br>and I pour cream into the black.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A few eggs from my own chickens<br>and sheep chops from the animals<br>that grazes right over the farm<br>is great for breakfast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later I walk down to the fields<br>or ride on Umfaan<br>my Arabic stallion<br>to see<br>if the keepers<br>are tending the cattle<br>and where they are grazing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I can stay for hours<br>in the grassland<br>and look at the bushes<br>about me<br>and the serenity<br>of it all climbs very deep<br>down into my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am as strong as the earth<br>that I love<br>and help to hack holes<br>right through iron stones<br>with a pickaxe<br>where the new fence <br>pole after pole <br>is beginning to stand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am pitched into this Africa<br>just like this<br>and have nowhere else<br>to go to<br>and my hands are hard as rock<br>from years of work<br>and years of resistance<br>against the sun and weather<br>and I love my farm<br>and my country.</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=398208" data-title="I am a farmer de Gert Strydom" data-description="I am a farmer who are up before first light and I drink my coffee between the cows in the stable where milking machines are doing their thing sucking and I pour cream into the black. A few eggs from my own chickens and sheep chops from the anima..."></div> </div> </div>

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