<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399764" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The veldt is all around me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The veldt is all around me<br>and I am beyond enemy lines<br>camouflaged, clothed in<br>military uniform, wearing tracking boots, <br>with the soles almost like <br>running shoes, <br>with a weapon in my hands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">viewing, taking reconnaissance<br>of enemy soldiers, driving by<br>on pickups, in cars without roofs<br>in trucks waving guns<br>in the air and sometimes<br>firing as they pass by</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and suddenly a young boy<br>is beside me<br>clothed in a blue short sleeved shirt<br>and grey short pants<br>looking like school uniform<br>but being too young for school<br>and walking barefoot <br>right next to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherever I run from bush to bush, <br>catwalk, leopard crawl<br>and hide behind bushes<br>getting nearer to enemy positions<br>he stays at my side like a shadow<br>running, walking and standing openly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and it annoys me<br>and that he keeps talking to me<br>as he can draw attention to us<br>and I say: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Gerrie, come and lie down.<br>Hide behind this bushes. Stop talking.<br>You will draw the enemy to us.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unconcerned like walking in the veldt<br>in my young days, and being ignored<br>by the natives passing by<br>the boy looks at me <br>shaking his head and asks: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Why are the enemy shooting in the air <br>while they drive past? <br>Why do they sometimes <br>rob their own people? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Realizing that it’s my own thoughts<br>and I look at the child again<br>and see my younger self<br>with childish innocence<br>accompanying 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=399764" data-title="The veldt is all around me de Gert Strydom" data-description="The veldt is all around me and I am beyond enemy lines camouflaged, clothed in military uniform, wearing tracking boots, with the soles almost like running shoes, with a weapon in my hands viewing, taking reconnaissance of enemy soldiers, driv..."></div> </div> </div>

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