A Scene Of Another Night In South Africa Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Johannes Prins, in answer to Robin Camhee)

The spotlight outside does suddenly go on,
catches a cat standing with glowing eyes,

every security gate is closed,
when the howling of the dogs for the moon awakens us,

we turn around in bed and together do lie without words,
when hot you do come into my arms,

the alarm-system winks its red eye for me
and on the rail a diesoline train does pass,

my Colt.45 and ELG 12-bore shotgun
are at the police and cannot stop any killers

and at 03h00 the neighbour's wife does scream
where outside her husband do hold her in his arms,

where the whole neighbourhood knows her car has been robbed
and for help from the police there is no kind of faith

when the neighbourhood-guard drives in rage up and down,
while I wonder if I could dare to go outside

and you and I pray for God to protect us against the danger,
further do sleep right against each other.

[|Reference:"terug bed toe" (back to bed)by Johannes Prins."Scenes from another day" by Robin Camhee.]