<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400136" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I drive through Laingsburg</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I drive through Laingsburg<br>I wonder why people build houses<br>in a water-basin, <br>but who expects<br>a big cloudburst<br>with rain pouring down<br>in the middle of the Karoo? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The word murder now jumps<br>out of the names of residential areas<br>and insurers talk about a act of God</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if Laingsburg <br>is like Sodom and Gomorra<br>where God let out His judgement</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when a flood swept building, houses<br>and squatter’s shacks<br>away with its waters<br>and caused people to drown</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and if I would think similar<br>only the righteous stayed alive, <br>but it’s nonsense<br>as a disaster stays a disaster<br>and here nobody<br>preached for conversion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and our incompetence<br>to grasp it<br>far too easily lies the guilt<br>on Him from who all good things comes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Laingsburg 25 January 1981.]</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=400136" data-title="When I drive through Laingsburg de Gert Strydom" data-description="When I drive through Laingsburg I wonder why people build houses in a water-basin, but who expects a big cloudburst with rain pouring down in the middle of the Karoo? The word murder now jumps out of the names of residential areas and insurers ..."></div> </div> </div>

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