One Night I Dream Poem by Gert Strydom

One night I dream
about ratel armoured cars
that looks different
and are almost as impenetrable
as American tanks

and can shoot accurately further
than G-6 howitzers while moving
and can drive right through
landmine fields
and we are fighting
in a enemy territory

There are enemy weapons
burning everywhere
and their aeroplanes
are grounded in rows

and when we win
I have already for a time
being wishing for it to end
as I am fed up with war,
killing and people that suffer

but this dream
and many others
that really happened
stays with me.