<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399032" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On patrol</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The AK-47 bullet<br>hangs as a pendant<br>with dog tags around my neck<br>(it could have been a memento<br>made of gold from you, <br>but our love is through, <br>shattered into pieces) <br>and it swings to and thro<br>while I bend to wash my face<br>in the cold water of the stream</div><div style="margin:10px 0">enemy boot tracks<br>lay plastered in the mud<br>on the riverbank and in the stream<br>I spot two dots, barely showing eyes<br>where a crocodile drifts on the prowl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and this morning the bush, the river<br>smells different, somewhat peaceful<br>as if no man has ever wandered here<br>but the sub-machinegun <br>next to me, keeps reminding me<br>that death lurks everywhere.</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=399032" data-title="On patrol de Gert Strydom" data-description="The AK-47 bullet hangs as a pendant with dog tags around my neck (it could have been a memento made of gold from you, but our love is through, shattered into pieces) and it swings to and thro while I bend to wash my face in the cold water of th..."></div> </div> </div>

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