<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jonah</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We sail into a calm sea<br>and are far away from land<br>when that heavy storm unleashes <br>with its fury, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but below in the hold I am sleeping<br>and when I wake<br>I hear men running up and down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then one bows over me<br>with a bright oil lamp in his hands<br>and the ship jerks with every wave</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that slaps against it and others breaking over it<br>and a hand is stretched out to me<br>and I am pulled to my feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On deck I see thunderbolts<br>falling everywhere around us and the wind<br>howls as if it’s mad</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the tiller man shouts pray man pray<br>and maybe your god will hear you<br>as we have already prayed and pleaded </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and this ship will just now<br>break under us, into pieces<br>and the ship creaks, shudders</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and tumbles up and down<br>when the captain asks for a dice<br>and the lot falls on me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and with the howling wind <br>and lightings resounding<br>and the sea that foams wildly<br>I am thrown into the water</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and while I sink and think that now<br>I am going to drown, I pray and beg for help<br>and a big fish swallows me, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a really big thing<br>and then I think that now I am in real jeopardy, <br>then God takes his decision</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and it chucks me out<br>at Nineveh<br>I see the light.</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=398619" data-title="Jonah de Gert Strydom" data-description="We sail into a calm sea and are far away from land when that heavy storm unleashes with its fury, but below in the hold I am sleeping and when I wake I hear men running up and down and then one bows over me with a bright oil lamp in his hands ..."></div> </div> </div>

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