<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400080" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We were on patrol in the desert</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were on patrol in the desert, <br>drove through a part of the Namib <br>with a brown armoured car<br>at a place where there were firm ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and camped for the night, <br>seeing the trip as a type of joy ride<br>and during the day the sun was utterly hot<br>but the night was black and icy cold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we counted bright stars<br>that looked shot-gunned into the sky<br>and the Bushmen trackers<br>sat round a fire where they prepared tea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">reminding me of the British army<br>but we were continents away<br>in another country, fighting a enemy<br>that did not bother them.</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=400080" data-title="We were on patrol in the desert de Gert Strydom" data-description="We were on patrol in the desert, drove through a part of the Namib with a brown armoured car at a place where there were firm ground and camped for the night, seeing the trip as a type of joy ride and during the day the sun was utterly hot but..."></div> </div> </div>

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