<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399537" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The fallen Cuban soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your hand lies stretched out<br>and still holds on to your Ak<br>where you lie in Angola, <br>in the African bush in the last sleep<br>and in Luanda<br>and later in Havana<br>they know that you are missing <br>and are probably dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nobody of your unit<br>will ever again, <br>drive tanks and armoured cars<br>and their general<br>does not wait on their return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somewhere in Cuba a woman mourns <br>and waits in vain, <br>to ever again<br>hear something from you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You lifted your weapon<br>against boys from South Africa<br>and the bullets of an Afrikaner boy<br>pierced you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your camouflage uniform<br>is stained with blood<br>and you are placed in a hole<br>in the red-brown sand<br>and white powder, <br>is dropped on top of you <br>before you become a part<br>of the cold earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later a Ovambo’s farm goats<br>will graze above you and eat<br>from the thorn bushes, <br>that grows over you<br>and you will be forgotten by everyone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Ak=Ak47 submachine gun.]</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=399537" data-title="The fallen Cuban soldier de Gert Strydom" data-description="Your hand lies stretched out and still holds on to your Ak where you lie in Angola, in the African bush in the last sleep and in Luanda and later in Havana they know that you are missing and are probably dead. Nobody of your unit will ever agai..."></div> </div> </div>

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