<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400458" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Zimbabwe frightened you</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zimbabwe frightened you, <br>Zimbabwe where we could be alone<br>and in a way I felt at home.<br>The dark black faces, <br>the savagery, hunger<br>and wretched poverty<br>were more than you could take.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You panicked thinking<br>that the unruly young teenagers<br>and so-called war veterans<br>would not just drive <br>the farmers away, <br>but were sharpening<br>their Panga-blades<br>even for white tourists.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Everywhere you looked, <br>you saw death, destruction<br>and black rule taking its toll<br>and the ever hungry<br>begging people<br>was like a prophecy<br>of what in the future<br>may be waiting for us<br>at home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Visiting the places <br>we had dreamed of, <br>the Zimbabwe ruins, <br>Mana pools, Kariba lake<br>and the Victoria falls<br>was like a nightmare to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the African art carvings<br>of people and animals <br>and rural paintings <br>of the Ndebele people<br>hardly caught your eye<br>and you would rather die<br>than stay a day longer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">African dancers screaming <br>around a fire <br>and dancing like shadows<br>on the beat <br>of ancient drums<br>drove the fear home, <br>so that you wanted to get into the car.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: To Minette, of whom there is just memories. You Hated Spain by Ted Hughes.]</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=400458" data-title="Zimbabwe frightened you de Gert Strydom" data-description="Zimbabwe frightened you, Zimbabwe where we could be alone and in a way I felt at home. The dark black faces, the savagery, hunger and wretched poverty were more than you could take. You panicked thinking that the unruly young teenagers and so-c..."></div> </div> </div>

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