<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399436" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The bad lands</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nowhere in the bush<br>where lions, leopard, <br>crocodiles, hippos <br>and snakes dwelt<br>felt really bad to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On patrol at times<br>a hidden landmine, <br>a booby-trapped corpse<br>could shatter you<br>with a thousand<br>hell hot pieces of steel<br>and still skill, tenacity<br>and knowledge kept me safe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even in Angola facing enemy armour<br>where shells swished past, <br>Ratel armoured cars were trapped<br>and shot out<br>and the enemy <br>hatched in steel caskets <br>that were armoured cars<br>and tanks at a time, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">where hyena, jackal <br>and vultures ripped through bodies<br>of shot, sliced, ripped Cuban<br>and Fapla soldiers<br>we overcame<br>and although the cruelty of war<br>and lost of human live<br>gripped me<br>and the smell penetrated<br>up into my soul, <br>the ground stayed pure<br>and African <br>as if we did belong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet when I visit that little hill<br>(in Natal) <br>where Dingaan misled Piet Retief <br>and had him <br>and his companions slaughtered<br>and fed their bodies <br>to the birds, the wind, the sun<br>their spilled blood is still glowing<br>as if radioactive<br>and that place<br>feels really evil to me.</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=399436" data-title="The bad lands de Gert Strydom" data-description="Nowhere in the bush where lions, leopard, crocodiles, hippos and snakes dwelt felt really bad to me. On patrol at times a hidden landmine, a booby-trapped corpse could shatter you with a thousand hell hot pieces of steel and still skill, tenac..."></div> </div> </div>

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