<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I fly away from Tanzania</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I fly away from Tanzania<br>and as the plane turns <br>over Dar es-Salaam, <br>I see the statue<br>of the black man<br>breaking his chains<br>and I wonder<br>who is really free<br>in a land of poverty? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea is dark blue<br>and a flotilla of small boats<br>are carrying tobacco, coffee<br>and cotton to ships <br>in the deeper water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great country<br>stretches out under the plane<br>and the massai mara planes <br>looks as if it goes on<br>into infinity<br>and I plan to visit <br>the Serengeti National Park, <br>to go to Zanzibar<br>and to climb mount mount Kilimanjaro <br>when I return</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three weeks of erecting cell phone towers<br>flew past in a blink of a eye<br>and I am going home again<br>and the Nyasa Lake <br>passes like a blue sea<br>under the plane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Johannesburg international is hot<br>and it’s the beginning of spring<br>and the Wimpy has got<br>cheap burgers<br>and bottomless Coke<br>and I drink<br>as if coming out of the desert<br>and it’s great to be back<br>in my own country 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> <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=398247" data-title="I fly away from Tanzania de Gert Strydom" data-description="I fly away from Tanzania and as the plane turns over Dar es-Salaam, I see the statue of the black man breaking his chains and I wonder who is really free in a land of poverty? The sea is dark blue and a flotilla of small boats are carrying tob..."></div> </div> </div>

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