<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567157" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Haiti and Other Wars</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dark soldier at attention near the sea<br>A tear, like sudden blood, <br>Down sweat and flesh and the teeth of strangers<br>Through bullets and the barrels of loaded guns</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blood, like a frightened lizard <br>Through his window in the night, <br>A sky the colour of corbeaux<br>And tears that flow to a fretful, reckless sea </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dark soldier came here, a stranger, when the moon was low and<br>Mocking distance from this dry and shattered land<br>Lying beautiful and broken like first sex<br>Her smile the shape of an unfinished dream</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He came here when the day was night and the night was blind<br>Planes the shape of vultures over scalded hills<br>Smoke the smell of scabs greets them as they arrive<br>He stands at attention near the sea and in his tears </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strangers presenting alms of food and cameras<br>Strangers from across the way <br>Strangers through his window in the night<br>Strangers from familiar lands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dark soldier at attention near the sea<br>A castaway on broken ground<br>Bullets, blood and breakfast<br>She smiles at him, turns away and goes to sleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wesley+Gibbings">Wesley Gibbings</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=567157" data-title="Of Haiti and Other Wars de Wesley Gibbings" data-description="Dark soldier at attention near the sea A tear, like sudden blood, Down sweat and flesh and the teeth of strangers Through bullets and the barrels of loaded guns Blood, like a frightened lizard Through his window in the night, A sky the colour ..."></div> </div> </div>

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