<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399346" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>South Africa, my country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could I play like you, like a lion cub, <br>spending my days inviolate with the world, <br>when you were innocent, intact<br>had tried to touch butterflies with deadly paws, <br>you would have stayed forever in my heart<br>and I would have found acquiescence in you constantly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still your paws had become big, deadly<br>your jaws had become snapping, had mightily showered blood<br>when your growth went to maturity, <br>you did even amaze the biggest, most deadly cats<br>and from your compulsory service I wasn’t free, <br>fought for survival in your hunt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but now you are wounded far too badly, too serious, <br>I cannot stop the destruction anymore, <br>where you now want to kill your own cubs<br>and my brothers flee far away from you<br>while you do not want to know them anymore, <br>are infatuated by bloodlust, are infatuated to win the fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still I love you far too much<br>to now want to see your nemesis, <br>I still try to heal your most serious wounds, <br>I still try to share my mangled life with you<br>and I can now smell your breath deadly, <br>while you use my life selfishly.</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=399346" data-title="South Africa, my country de Gert Strydom" data-description="Could I play like you, like a lion cub, spending my days inviolate with the world, when you were innocent, intact had tried to touch butterflies with deadly paws, you would have stayed forever in my heart and I would have found acquiescence in ..."></div> </div> </div>

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