<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John The Baptist At The River Jordan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see them standing in their best clothes as holy people<br>at the market square, the threshing-floor and the well<br>hitting with their fists proudly on their breasts, <br>even where rich old men doze off at the city gate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if they want to shout, that they are children of Abraham<br>are saved as his descendants, <br>are free from their lineage but as a brood of vipers<br>they rise around me with love missing from their hearts<br>where they only wait for a moment, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">are waiting to strike and backward to rob, plunder<br>and they think that they are saved <br>and where I am baptising<br>they stand and gossip backwardly, <br>are coming with questions set as traps</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I wonder if I have to walk up to them, <br>have got to drive them away<br>and have to rub in their sins <br>in front of the people, the city, the whole world?</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=398615" data-title="John The Baptist At The River Jordan de Gert Strydom" data-description="I see them standing in their best clothes as holy people at the market square, the threshing-floor and the well hitting with their fists proudly on their breasts, even where rich old men doze off at the city gate as if they want to shout, that t..."></div> </div> </div>

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