<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398687" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life chess</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was like yesterday<br>that I saw two soldiers<br>play a game of chess, <br>both were just pawns<br>in the hands of an evil being.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They fell from the board<br>and were placed horizontal<br>right next to it, <br>as if their existence <br>didn’t really matter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their lives were wasted<br>and somewhere back in the states<br>their status changed to the departed, <br>before the game of war<br>had really started.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was like yesterday<br>that I saw two soldiers die, <br>shot out of their vehicle<br>by a rocket propelled grenade<br>and splattered, scorched and burnt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without choice I was part of the game<br>and just the Lord knows<br>from where true courage came<br>and at times I and my brothers <br>fought the fight<br>to the best of our ability.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today peace reigns<br>and the game is over and done<br>and all my brothers have gone, <br>but at times it all again <br>becomes real to me<br>and forever I am at war<br>with the demons in my soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Brothers => Brothers in arms. States=> Back home in the RSA.]</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=398687" data-title="Life chess de Gert Strydom" data-description="It was like yesterday that I saw two soldiers play a game of chess, both were just pawns in the hands of an evil being. They fell from the board and were placed horizontal right next to it, as if their existence didn’t really matter. Their ..."></div> </div> </div>

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