<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400157" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I was a child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a child<br>I saw fireflies, <br>fly passing secretly at night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world was full of wonderful things<br>and there were trees<br>with bird nests and eggs<br>of white and pink and blue<br>and with spots on them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could shoot a true shot with my kettie<br>and the blue fishing rod<br>took carp, blue kurper, yellowfish<br>and catfish from streams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doves or fish fillets<br>from glowing wood embers, <br>tasted delicious<br>and the world was a great place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the marsh plovers jumped up and down<br>and like wounded birds, as if with a broken wing<br>tried to entice you away from their nests</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aloe and protea bushes were all over the kopjes<br>and prickly pear, wild peach, mispil and stamvrugte<br>were everywhere on the ridges.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world of a child faded away with time.<br>But when I went back as a adult; <br>a highway runs right through the hillocks<br>and there are houses where there was marsh<br>and the streams are full of rubbish and litter<br>and I see how progress has destroyed nature.</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=400157" data-title="When I was a child de Gert Strydom" data-description="When I was a child I saw fireflies, fly passing secretly at night. The world was full of wonderful things and there were trees with bird nests and eggs of white and pink and blue and with spots on them. I could shoot a true shot with my kettie ..."></div> </div> </div>

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