There are things that you cannot avoid <br />like the call-up instruction which cruelly <br />brings you to another world and measure you out <br />for whom you must become and be and stay <br />and you can never find escape <br />from violence, killing, guilt and grief. <br /> <br />There are things that a soldier cannot avoid <br />like war that cruelly let people suffer <br />with flames, bullets and bombs <br />and there are events that you cannot forget, <br />although you and you comrades freed the innocent <br />and at night it’s sweated out in dreams <br />and there are things that you cannot avoid.<br /><br />Gert Strydom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-are-things-that-you-cannot-avoid/
