Louw Wepener

When Wepener climbed mount Bosigo
the steel assegai points
glittered against the slope.

His rifle hit its own thunder
where he stood
against a horde of the enemy.

Shooting loading and shooting
while assegais shining
like falling rain from the air

and the Almighty
asked a brave man a sacrifice,
to like His Son carry a cross.

[Reference: Ter nagedagtenis van Kommandant Louw Wepener by F.W. Reitz. Assegai = A spear.]

poem by Gert Strydom
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