xxxxoxox, 23 july 2014
Never say forever
Cause forever doesn't exist
Never say I love you
Cause you'll never forget it
I gave you my hand
And you stole my heart
I gave you my love
And you tore it apart
You showed me happiness
A world that doesn't exist
You showed me emptiness
A feeling I can't resist
Never say forever
Cause forevers a lie
Never say forever
Cause forever makes you cry
xxxxoxox, 23 july 2014
I thought that I could run from you,
That I could leave you behind,
But you always seem to find me,
And take over my life,
I thought emptiness was a phase,
Like smoking dope to ease the pain,
I thought you would be gone by now,
I hoped I would be better somehow,
What do you do when you don't want to go on?
When your legs are to weak,
And the pain is to strong,
Do you wait for a little hope?
That you know will never come?
I don't understand,
How they all move on,
I don't understand,
How they don't feel wronged
xxxxoxox, 23 july 2014
Lets play a little game,
But the price is a heart beat,
Anyone can join,
But you must follow me,
Down this road of alcoholic pain,
Open your books, Take notes of the scene,
The bottle won't help,
And no one hears their screams,
Stand back and watch,
As they reach for the stars,
But they're too afraid to touch them,
They're cursed by their scares.
Do you see how it hurts?
How the pain never ends?
Remember if you take a chance,
To never tie your hands,
Their screams never stop,
And their hearts don't beat,
All they want,
Is to feel, Like you and me.
xxxxoxox, 23 july 2014
Who locked me outside,
In this Desolate place,
Who left me behind,
In lifes worthless race,
You stood at the door,
And watched me bleed,
I closed my eyes,
And fell to sleep,
Another monster in the mirror,
Another demon behind the fear,
Round edges that cut like knives,
Bottled anger in this life,
Who helped when you screamed?
Who walked away when you were in need?
Who came when you cried?
Who laughed when you died?
Gert Strydom, 23 july 2014
Through the dense wilderness
where the red earth swallows everything
Ratel armoured cars burst through the bush
from Rundu to where
the Cuzizi and Lomba rivers cross
while scouts reconnoitre the enemy
and it unleashes a battle that lasts for days
that crushes and burns thousands of enemy soldiers
and everywhere around us there is danger,
there are enemies fighting and others deserting and running away
where we press them in between the two rivers
to where we make a death acre
while the enemy shoot with their battle tanks and armour,
Mig-warplanes every now and then drop their bombs,
South Africans pull the heart out of FAPLA,
out of the Cubans and the Russians
and the shadow of the South African soldier falls
over Africa and far away hangs
over Cuba and Russia
and mothers and wives in Angola and Cuba cover their faces
while they long for their husbands and boys
and suddenly the communists start to talk about peace,
politicians as if in rapture
make accords and do tolerate each other
as if we are brothers in the universe
and the world that had been disappears into the nought.
[References: “The battle at Cuito Cuanavale: “The results of the campaign up to April 1988 were 4,785 killed on the Cuban/Faplan side, with 94 tanks and hundreds of combat vehicles destroyed, against 31 South Africans killed in action, 3 tanks destroyed (SADF tanks entered the war after the Lomba River campaign) and 11 SADF armoured cars and troop carriers lost. A total of 9 Migs were destroyed and only 1 SAAF Mirage shot down.” (General) Jannie Geldenhuys. (1994): At the front. Jonathan Ball Publishers. P240.
“The South African force, under the command of Colonel Deon Ferreira, was tasked with carrying out three operations (1) Operation Modular - The aim of which was to halt and reverse the FAPLA / Cuban advance on the UNITA strongholds of Mavinga and Jamba, (2) Operation Hooper - The aim of which was to inflict maximum casualties on the retreating FAPLA / Cuban forces after they had been halted and (3) Operation Packer - The aim of which was to force the FAPLA / Cuban forces to retreat to the west of the Cuito River.” Nortje, Piet (2003). 32 Battalion. Zebra Press.
"In early October the Soviet-Fapla offensive was smashed at the Lomba River near Mavinga. It turned into a headlong retreat over the 120 miles back to the primary launching point at Cuito Cuanavale. In some of the bloodiest battles of the entire civil war, a combined force of some 8,000 UNITA fighters and 4,000 SADF troops destroyed one Fapla brigade and mauled several others out of a total Fapla force of some 18,000 engaged in the three-pronged offensive. Estimates of Fapla losses ranged upward of 4,000 killed and wounded. This offensive had been a Soviet conception from start to finish. Senior Soviet officers played a central role in its execution. ... Huge quantities of Soviet equipment were destroyed or fell into UNITA and SADF hands when Fapla broke into a disorganized retreat... The 1987 military campaign represented a stunning humiliation for the Soviet Union, its arms and its strategy. ... As of mid-November, the UNITA/SADF force had destroyed the Cuito Cuanavale airfield and pinned down thousands of FAPLA's best remaining units clinging onto the town's defensive perimeters." Crocker, Chester A. (1992) High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighbourhood. (Crocker was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Reagan Administration.)
John Turner claims that: “following their losses, the Cubans were convinced that further military confrontation with the SADF would not succeed.” Turner, John W. (1998). Continent Ablaze; The Insurgency Wars in Africa, 1960 to the Present. Cassell Plc.
Comments made by a Soviet adviser to the Cubans in Angola: "The people's armed forces for the liberation of Angola have not been able either, even with the help of the Cubans, to decisively defeat the enemy and drive him out of the territory or the country.” M. Ponomariov, Krasnaya Zvezda Magazine; 20 May 1988.]
Gert Strydom, 23 july 2014
(in answer to N.P. van Wyk Louw)
I have heard an urgent message
that with the coming of the great creator God
planets will loose their light,
even in the outer universe that lays far off
and on the power of the omnipotent command
all of the stars will loose their light,
that love will exist to eternity
when God comes to lead his people,
that a sea of flame will cover this planet
and will come from the omnipotent Lord,
that all under the power of darkness
will admit that He is righteous and honourable,
that the universe will know of the judgement of the almighty God
and that a great crowd of people will gather with Him.
[Reference: “Inferno” by N.P. van Wyk Louw.]
Gert Strydom, 23 july 2014
Never has a peaceful silence been between us,
intimate body language
has never said so many things
with the beautiful curve
of your breasts surging
while the night stretches into darkness,
with your two eyes shining like burning objects
and do anew create new desires in me
and it feels as if this time can last eternally,
as if everything just did come
to this moment, this single hour
as the peak of existence, the peak between life and death
while in passion are catching a mere moment
to which your moans and cries does hang.
Satish Verma, 23 july 2014
A quest for celestial insanity
brings some comfort.
Somewhere the script had failed.
Only man was not responsible
for the exiled sun.
No longer the earth obeys the numbers.
Wait, my mother
I will enter into your bones
and increase the serotonin flow.
A father killed his daughter
for the sake of a dragonfly.
Downstairs moon was sleep-walking.
A constant dialogue
between flesh and a tyrant
was satisfying the sadistic god.
Satish Verma
Naeem, 22 july 2014
Oh, brother of mine, I have seen you under the tree;
-you have tried so fine to become what could not be.
You have thrived away from the shadows so supreme;
-you had that you lay and come to what you may have seen.
You let others fly beneath the waves of your dreams;
-but you may forget what may lie and you have foreseen.
Pity me not regretful brother of mine under the tree;
-you have never tried harder for what you could have been.
-Nr.
Azhar alam, 22 july 2014
Abae talkh ki nisbat mujhe bekraar kiya hai
Is hararat me jaam nafsh nisar kiya hai
Arzmand bhi tha mai par nazarah kuchh ajeeb hua
Ye manzar usne kayam saro bazaar kiya hai
Kya pata tha badle ki aag sulag uthegi aaj
Usne bade mijaz se ye waar kiya hai
Zehan me aabad hai beete fasane aaj bhi
Ajeeb waqt ki fitrat ne ye qarar kiya hai
Maine dakhal diya tha kisi zamane ke azhar
Aur aaj usne paimana aar paar kiya hai
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