WIE ONTHOU NOG DIE KERELS?

REUNIE FOTO SIGBAAR BY RSG WEBTUISTE.

SCARECROW II.

SCARECROW.

staring in the face of condemnation
laughter fills the sky instead of rain

live my life alone in resignation
arms outstretched for those who cannot say

scarecrow

crucified and left in isolation
pictures of our lost morality

scarecrow

eyeless stares invite this whole damnation
rotting corpse of inhumanity

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ARTIST:MINISTRY

CROP CIRCLES

IEMAND WIE EK KEN.

GISTER NA WERK, RY EK IN N BAIE GOEIE GEMOED HUIS TOE, MY DAG BY DIE WERK HET RUSTIG VERLOOP VIR N MAANDAG. EK BESLUIT TOE OM N KOUE BIER TE GAAN DRINK BY DIE LOCAL KROEG NABY MY HUIS, N GESELIGE PLEKKIE GENAAMD WOODSTOCK PUB EN GRILL. DAAR GEKOM MERK EK IETS IS VERKEERD, DIE VRIENDELIKE ATMOSFEER ONTBREEK DIE MUSIEK IS SKAARS HOORBAAR IN DIE AGTERGROND EN MY GEWONE GROEP VRIENDE SE GESIGTE IS STRAK EN STIL. EK MERK 1 OF 2 MENSE WIE SE OE DUIDELIK WYS DAT TRANE IS GESTORT. EK HET DIE GEWONE HANDSKUD UIT GEDEEL EN AAN DIE EINDE VAN DIE KROEG GAAN SIT EN N BIER BESTEL WONDEREND WAT AAN DIE GANG IS MET MY VRIENDE.

MY VRIEND “LEGION” WAS DAAR EN HY HET LANGS MY KOM SIT, EN IN SY FRANSE AKSENT MAAR IN VLOT AFRIKAANS VIR MY GEVRA OF EK GEHOOR HET WAT MET EEN VAN ONS VRIENDE “BP” GEBEUR HET. EK NOEM HOM BP WANT EK WIL NIE SY NAAM OP DIE BLOG PLAAS NIE. NOU BP IS N VRIEND MET WIE EK AL LANK GESIT EN DEBATEER HET OOR MUSIEK, VAN LED ZEPPELIN TOT LINKIN PARK. NEE, WAT HET MET HOM GEBEUR, HET EK MY FRANSE VRIEND GEVRA? EN TOE SLAAT HY MY MET SY WOORDE BO VAN MY STOEL AF, BP SE 15MAANDE OUE SEUN HET SONDAG VERDRINK. HOE EN WAT GEBEUR HET WEET EK NIE WANT EK WOU NIE VRA NIE. DIE BIER HET BITTER EN SLEG IN MY KEEL AF GESPOEL, EN EK KON DIE TRANE VOEL OPDAM IN MY OE.

EN SO HET ONS GROEPIE IN STILTE GESIT EN TREUR VIR N VRIEND SE TRAGIESE VERLIES. BP ONS DINK AAN JOU EN JOU VROU IN DIE TYD VAN VERLIES, EK KAN NIE DIE WOORDE VIND OM TE SE HOE JAMMER EK VOEL VIR JULLE NIE, MAAR WEET NET HY IS NOU OP SY EIE “STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN” VEILIG IN DIE ARMS VAN ONS VADER. EK ONTHOU HOE EK EN MY VRIENDIN HOM EENKEER YOGHURT GEVOER HET, EN EK KAN DIE TRANE NIE MEER KEER NIE, DIS NET TE VEEL VIR MY.

IAM VOS ES TUTUS INTELUM OF DEUS, AMEN!

DIE GROOT "C".

MY VRIEND SE VROU BEGIN MORE HAAR EERSTE CHEMO SESSIE VIR KANKER MY HART BREEK AAN N DUISEND STUKKE TOE HY MET TRANE IN SY OE VIR MY SE HY IS SO BANG HY VERLOOR SY MAAT VAN 26 JAAR. VANAAND SAL EK BID NIE VIR GENESING EN WONDERWERKE NIE MAAR DAT EK GOD SE PLAN MET HULLE AANVAAR EN DAT HY MY MAAT EN SY VROU KRAG SAL GEE OM DEUR DIE DING TE KOM. SY IS 6 WEKE TERUG MET KLIER EN BORS KANKER GEDIAGNOSEER.

PRICELESS.

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after the night at a business
function.

He forces himself to open his eyes and the first thing he sees is a
couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table.

And, next to them, a single red rose!

Jack sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and
pressed.


Jack looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order,
spotlessly clean. So is the rest of the house.

He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring
back at him in the bathroom mirror and notices a note on the table:

"Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping - Love
you!!"

Also the morning paper is open at the sport section next to his breakfast.

His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks,

"Son...what happened last night?" "Well, you came home after 3 am,
drunk and out of your mind.

You broke the coffee table, puked in the hallway and got that black
eye when you ran into the door."

"So, why is everything in such perfect order, so clean, I have a rose
and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?"

His son replies, "Oh, THAT!...Mom dragged you to the bedroom and when
she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, "Leave me alone,
b*tch, I'm married!!!".



Broken table - R585.26

Hot breakfast - R42.20

Red Rose bud - R35.00

Two aspirins - R8.00

Saying the right thing, at the right time... Priceless!!!

Why is chocolate better than sex?

1. You can GET chocolate.

2. Chocolate satisfies even when it has gone soft.

3. You can have chocolate even in front of your mother.

4. If you bite the nuts too hard the chocolate won't mind.

5. Two people of the same sex can have chocolate without being called nasty names.

6. The word "commitment" doesn't scare off chocolate.

7. You can ask a stranger for chocolate without getting your face slapped.

8. With chocolate there's no need to fake it.

9. Chocolate doesn't make you pregnant.

6. You are never too young or too old for chocolate.

10. With chocolate size doesn't matter.

VIR ELF.

SHERLOCK HOLMES.

STRANGER IN THE NIGHT. (PART 2)

3 YEARS HAS PASSED SINCE THAT NIGHT THE STRANGER CAME TO MY GRANDMOTHER ANNES HOUSE, WHO AT THE TIME WAS 16YEARS OLD. NOW I SHALL TELL YOU THE SECOND PART OF THIS STRANGE AND WEIRD TALE.
MY GREAT GRAND PARENTS AND ALL THE CHILDREN WAS SPENDING THE WEEKEND AT LILLY’S BROTHER FRANK. FRANK WAS NEVER A WEALTHY MAN AND WORKED FOR OUPA JOHN ON HIS FARM ROOIBULT. BUT 3 YEARS AGO ALL THIS CHANGED WHEN FRANK SUDDENLY ANOUNCED THAT HE HAD SAVED ENOUGH MONEY OVER THE YEARS TO BUY HIS OWN FARM IN THE CHLOORKOP DISTRICT OUTSIDE KEMPTON PARK. BOTH MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS OUPA JOHN AND OUMA LILLY SWALLOWED HARD AT THIS BUT THEY ACCEPTED IT AND WAS GLAD FOR FRANKS SAKE. IN THEIR HEARTS THEY BOTH NEW THAT FRANK WAS THE LAZY ONE IN THE FAMILY NEVER WITH MUCH AMBITION IN HIS LIFE, AND THAT HE NEVER SAVED A DIME OF THE MONEY HE MADE, BUT SOMEHOW HE MANAGED TO GET MONEY AND A LOT OF IT FROM SOMEWHERE TO BUY NOOITGEDAG. AND ON TOP OF THAT HE FIXED UP AND REFURBISHED THE WHOLE FARM HOUSE AND SURRONDING BUILDINGS. IN ADDITION TO THIS HE PURCHASED A NEW TRACTER AND A HERD OF 500 CATTLE. THIS MONEY HE CLAIMED TO OUPA JOHN HE BORROWED FROM THE BANK. THIS WAS A LIE CAUSE OUPA WAS FRIENDS WITH MANIE BODENSTYEN THE BANK MANAGER WHO LATER TOLD OUPA JOHN THAT FRANK NEVER APPLIED FOR A LONE BUT HIS BANK ACCOUNT DID GREW BY A HUGE AMOUNT OF ALMOST 200 000 POUNDS OVERNIGHT ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO.
THEY COULD NEVER FIND OUT WHO GAVE FRANK THIS MONEY BUT IT WAS TRANSFERD FROM A BANK IN THE MULDERSDRIFT DISTRICT INTO FRANKS.

AND NOW TO THE STORY, FRANK HAD MET POLLIE DU TOIT ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND THEY WHERE TO BE MARRIED ON NOOITGEDAG HENCE THE REASON WHY EVERYBODY WAS AT FRANKS FARM FOR THE WEEKEND. FAMILY CAME FROM FAR AND WIDE EVEN FAMILY FROM AS FAR AS SOUTH WEST AFRICA ATTENDED THE WEDDING. WHEN OUMA ANNE TOLD ME THIS STORY SHE SAID THERE MUST HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO 300 PEOPLE AT THE WEDDING.
THE SERVICE TOOK PLACE AT 3 IN THE AFTER NOON ON THE HUGE STOEP FRANK HAD ADDED TO THE FARM HOUSE CHAIRS WAS PLACED IN FRONT FOR THE GUESTS TO BE SEATED, AND FROM THERE EVERYBODY WENT FOR THE PARTY THAT WAS HELD IN THE BIG BARN A FEW HUNDRED METERS FROM THE FARM HOUSE. TABLES WERE LAID OUT WITH VARIOUS FOODS AND OUMA LILLYS COUSIN ANTON WAS THE BARMAN. AN OLD OSSEWA WAS CONVERTED FOR THIS AND ANTON SERVED DRINKS FROM THE BACK OF THE OSSEWA TO THE GUESTS.
A LOCAL BOERE ORKES CALLED DIE KORINGLANDERS PROVIDED THE MUSIC SCORE FOR THE PARTY.
AT ABOUT 7 IN THE EVENING THE PARTY WAS IN FULL SWING AND COUPLES WAS DANCING, DRINKS WAS FLOWING AND THE FESTIVE MOOD COULD BE FELT BY EVERYBODY. OUMA LILLY SAID SHE WAS BUSY TALKING TO OUMA LILLY WHEN SHE NOTICED A MAN STANDING IN THE ENTRANCE TO THE BARN NEXT TO THE OSSEWA. ANNE FELT A CHILL RUN DOWN HER SPINE WHEN SHE REALISED IT WAS THE STRANGE MAN FROM 3 YEARS AGO SHE TUCKED LILLYS SLEEVE, MA LOOK IT’S HIM SHE SAID AND AS LILLY LOOKED SHE SAW THE MAN LOUIE, SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER HIS SURNAME, WAS TALKING TO ANTON, WHO WAS POINTING AT THE PEOPLE DANCING. AS THE STRANGER STARTED TOWARDS THE COUPLES DANCING HE PASSED LILLY AND ANNE AND SMILED AT THEM TOUCHING THE RIM OF HIS HAT AS HE PASSED. ANNE WATCHED THE MAN AS HE WAVED TO FRANK WHO WHEN HE SAW THE MAN WENT DEATHLY PALE IN HIS FACE.

OUMA TOLD ME IT LOOKED AS IF A BUCKET OF WHITE PAINT WAS DUMPED INTO FRANKS FACE.THE MAN SAID SOMETHING TO FRANK WHO JUST NODDED AND THEN THEY BOTH HEADED TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BARN.AS FRANK PASSED LILLY SHE ASKED HIM, FRANK WHO IS THAT AND WERE ARE YOU GOING? FRANK STOPPED AND WITH A NERVOUS VOICE REPLIED, AG LILLY IT’S AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE WE ARE GOING TO MY STUDY, I NEED TO GIVE HIM SOME DOCUMENTS I WONT BE LONG.
AND BEFORE LILLY COULD SAY ANYTHING FRANK WAS OUT AND AFTER THE STRANGE MAN.
OUMA ANNE TOLD ME FOR SOME STRANGE REASON AS FRANK AND THE MAN LEFT THE BARN BOTH HER AND OUMA LILLY FORGOT THAT FRANK AND THE MAN HAD LEFT THE PARTY.AT AROUND 11 AS PEOPLE WANTED TO RETIRE FOR THE NIGHT POLLIE CAME UP TO LILLY AND ASKED IF SHE KNEW WHERE FRANK WAS.LILLY TOLD HER HE LEFT WITH A MAN ABOUT 2 HOURS AGO TO HIS STUDY.

LILLY AT THIS POINT FELT A CHILL DOWN HER BACK AND SHE KNEW SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAD HAPPENED TO HER BROTHER.
LILLY AND ANNE RAN OUT TO THE FARMHOUSE FOLLOWED BY POLLIE WHO KEPT ASKING WHATS WRONG.INSIDE THEY FOUND THE STUDY DOOR WAS LOCKED, LILLY BANGED ON THE DOOR CALLING FRANK REPEATEDLY, BUT ALL WAS SILENT BEHIND THE STUDY DOOR ANNE TRIED TOOK PEEK INTO THE KEYHOLE BUT THE KEY INSIDE BLOCKED THE VIEW, AND ANNE SAID SHE SMELLED THAT SAME SULFER ODOUR AGAIN THAT NIGHT SHE SMELLED 3 YEARS AGO.
TO CONCLUDE THIS TALE, OUPA JOHN AND A FRIEND HAD TO BREAK DOWN THE DOOR, INSIDE THEY FOUND THAT THE STUDY WAS EMPTY.

OUMA ANNE TOLD ME, THE CHAIR BEHIND FRANKS DESK WAS TURNED OVER, THERE WAS A FEW DROPS OF BLOOD SPATTERD AGAINST THE WALL BEHIND THE DESK, FRANKS PIPE WAS BROKEN 2, AND THERE WAS A HUGE HOLE IN THE CEILING RIGHT THROUGH THE ROOF LOOKING UP YOU COULD SEE THE STARS. THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT THE HOLE IS THAT NO DEBRIS WAS VISIBLE ANYWARE, A NEAT HOLE BIG ENOUGH FOR 2 PEOPLE TO FIT THROUGH IT. OUMA ANNE SAID IT WAS AS IF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING HAD SIMPLY WAVED A WAND AND POOF THERE WAS A PERFECT HOLE.

WELL NEEDLESS TO SAY FRANK WAS GONE THE WHOLE HOUSE ALL THE BUILDINGS AND THE REST OF THE FARM WAS SEARCHED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM FRANK AND THE STRANGER HAD VANISHED THAT NIGHT. THE LOCAL POLICE MAN SGT.FRIK VANSTADEN CAME TO THE FARM THE NEXT DAY TO TAKE STATEMENTS AND INVESTIGATE THE SCENE, AND HE FLATLY REFUSED TO PUT ON PAPER WHAT EVERYONE TOLD HIM. HE LATER FILED A REPORT THAT FRANK WENT MISSING WHILE DRIVING TO TOWN BUT THE HOLE WAS NOT MENTIONED. AFTER 2 YEARS POLLIE AND OUMA LILLY HAD FRANK DECLARED DEAD AND A SMALL SERVICE WAS HELD FOR HIM ON THE FARM NOOITGEDAG WHERE POLLIE STAYED TILL HER DYING DAY. OUMA LILLY TOLD OUPA JOHN A FEW WEEKS LATER ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HER AND ANNE THAT NIGHT THE STRANGER CAME LOOKING FOR FRANK. OUPA THEN TOOK OUMA AND ANNE ASIDE AND ALL HE SAID WAS THIS.
I KNOW ABOUT FRANK AND HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH A MAN NAMED LOUIE VAN DEN BERG WHO HE IS WHERE HE CAME FROM I DON’T KNOW, WHAT I DO KNOW I AM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU BUT HEAR ME NOW I NEVER EVER WANT TO HEAR THE 2 OF YOU SPEAK ABOUT THIS AGAIN, FRANK SOLD HIS SOUL AND THE DEVIL CAME TO COLLECT, AND WITH THAT OUPA JOHN TURNED AND WALKED AWAY OUT OF THIS TALE.

WHEN OUMA ANNE TOLD ME THIS STORY IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN 60 YEARS SHE SPOKE ABOUT THE STRANGER IN THE NIGHT.

STRANGER IN THE NIGHT. (PART 1)

THE FOLLOWING WAS TOLD TO ME BY MY GRANDMOTHER. IT HAPPENED TO HER WHILE SHE WAS LIVING WITH HER MOTHER (MY GREAT GRAN). SHE WAS 16 THE NIGHT THE STRANGER CAME TO THEIR FARM “ROOIBULT” IN KEMPTON PARK WHEN IT WAS STILL FLUSHED WITH GREAT BIG FARMS AND THE TOWN IT SELF WAS BUT A SMEAR OF DIRT ON THE MAP.
NOW I DO NOT CARE WHAT PEOPLE WILL THINK. IF THIS STRANGE TAIL IS TRUE OR NOT, I BELIEVE IT TRUE, FOR STARTERS MY GRAN NEVER LIED IN HER LIFE AND SHE WAS A DOWN RIGHT SWEET GOOD NATURED WOMAN WITH HIGH CRISTIAN VALUES AND A DEEP RESPECT FOR GOD AND THE PEOPLE AROUND HER. SHE ALWAYS HAD SPACE FOR ANOTHER PERSON IN HER HEART. SHE CAME FROM A FAMILY OF 8 CHILDREN, 5 WAS MY GREAT GRANS OWN KIDS AND 3 WAS ADOPTED ALONG THE WAY. 1 OF THE ADOPTED 3, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER ACTUALLY FOUND ABANDONNED ON A TRAIN HEADING FOR PRIESKA.

MY GRANS DAD OUPA JOHN WAS AWAY FROM ROOIBULT FOR A FEW DAYS TO SEE HIS BROTHER FRANK IN VEREENIGING. SO TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT MY GRAN WAS CALLED ANNE AND MY GREAT GRAN WAS CALLED LILLY, AND HERE FOLLOWS THE TAIL OF THE STRANGE VISITOR.
LILLY HAD JUST FINISHED EVENING PRAIR AND ALL THE KIDS WAS SENT TO BED FOR THE EVENIG. IY WAS ABOUT 8:00 IN THE EVENING WHEN ANNE HEARD A CLEAR LOUD KNOCK ON THE FRONT DOOR OF THE FARM HOUSE. SINCE SHE WAS THE ELDEST OF THE CHILDREN SHE GOT UP TO SEE WHO IT WAS SO LATE AT NIGHT.
SHE MET HER MOTHER LILLY IN THE HALL ALSO ON HER WAY TO THE LIVING ROOM. MA, ANNE SAID WHO KNOCKS AT THIS OUR DOOR SO LATE AT NIGHT? I DON’T KNOW MY GIRL BUT LETS GO SEE MAYBE IT IS SOMEONE IN NEED OF HELP. WHO IS THERE LILLY ASKED AT THE CLOSED DOOR? I AM A FRIEND OF PETRUS JOUBERT MADAM, THE VOICE DEEP AND HUSKED REPLIED FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
PETRUS JOUBERT WAS LILLY’S OLDEST BROTHER WHO STAYED ON ROOIBULT BUT HE WAS AWAY IN PRETORIA TO MEET HIS BUSINESS PARTNER FOR THE DEED OF SALE ON A PIECE OF LAND IN THE CHLOORKOP AREA OUTSIDE KEMPTON PARK.
LILLY OPEND THE DOOR AND WAS GREETED BY THE STRANGE MAN. HIS ATIRE CONSISTED OF A BLACK PINSTRIPE SUIT, A WHITE SHIRT AND BLACK TIE, BLACK SHINY SHOES AND A BLACK BATTISBEE HAT. HE WAS CLEAN SHAVED AND HAD DEEP BLUE EYES. ANNE INSTANTLY DID NOT LIKE THE MAN WHO SHOOK LILLYS HAND INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS LOUIE VAN DEN BERG.
LILLY RECALLED PETRUS SAYING LOUIES NAME TO HER WHEN SHE ASKED PETRUS ABOUT THE PIECE OF LAND HE WANTED TO BUY. SO LILLY TOLD HIM THAT PETRUS WAS AWAY IN PRETORIA AND WOULD ONLY BE BACK IN 3 OR 4 DAYS TIME. INSTEAD OF DISAPOINTED THE STRANGER APPEARD TO SUPRESS ANGER AND ANNE COULD SWEAR FOR A FEW SECONDS HIS BLUE EYES TURNED PITCH BLACK. SINCE LILLY KNEW THERE WAS NO PLACE OF LODGE IN TOWN SHE OFFERD THE STRANGER A SPARE ROOM FOR THE NIGHT AND HE KINDLY ACCEPTED. LILLY ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD LIKE SOMETHING TO EAT AND DRINK AND THE STRANGER DECLINED LILLYS OFFER. SO LILLY SHOWED HIM TO THE GUEST BEDROOM AND RETIRED TO HER OWN BED AFTER 15 MINUTES ANNE HEARD HER MOTHER WHISPER HER NAME. ANNE MY GIRL COME TO THE KITCHEN WITH MAMMA. SILENTLY SHE FOLLOWED LILLY AND IN THE KITCHEN LILLY SAID TO ANNE, I DON’T WANT TO SCARE YOU BUT I DON’T LIKE OR TRUST THAT MAN WE MUST STAY AWAKE TONIGHT AND KEEP AND EYE ON HIM. ANNE CONFIRMED THE SAME FEARS TO LILLY AND SO THEY SAT UP THAT NIGHT WATCHING THE SPARE ROOMS DOOR.

AT BOUT 12 THAT NIGHT LILLY AND ANNE SAW LIGHT COMING FROM BENEATH THE BEDROOM DOOR AND SINCE THEY USED CANDELS LILLY STATRTED TO WORRY THAT MAYBE THE STRANGER FELL ASLEEP WITH CANDLE STILL BURNING. SO LILLY AND ANNE SNEAKED UP TO THE DOOR AND LILLY PEERD THROUGH THE KEY HOLE. AFTER A FEW SECONDS SHE BECOND TO ANNE TO LOOK AND THIS IS WHAT SHE SAW.

THE STRANGER WAS SITTING ON THE BED HIS HANDS RESTING ON HIS KNEES. IN THE DIM CANDLE LIGHT ANNE LATER TOLD ME THE MAN WAS STARRING STRAIGHT INFRONT OF HIM AT THE WALL NOT BATTING AN EYELID AFTER A WHILE HE SLOWLY TURNED HIS HEAD TOWARDS THE DOOR SMILED AND WINKED AS IF HE KNEW HE WAS BEING WATCHED. THEN THERE WAS A SLIGHT SIMMER OF LIGHT THE CANDLE FLICKERD ALMOST OUT AND WHEN THE FLAME STRUGGLED BACK TO LIFE THE STRANGER WAS GONE. MA HIS GONE POOF JUST LIKE THAT ANNE SAID IN A SHAKY VOICE. STAY HERE MY GIRL I AM GETTING DADDYS GUN ANNE REPLIED AND RAN TO HER BEDROOM AND HERE LILLY LOADED JOHNS SINGLE BARREL SHOTGUN AND STRODE DETERMENTLY BACK TO THE GUEST ROOM.
SHE TOLD ANNE TO OPEN THE DOOR AND STAND ASIDE, SO DONE LILLY STRODE INTO THE ROOM POINTING THE SHOTGUN FROM HER HIP.
BUT THE MAN WAS GONE THEY CHECKED UNDER THE BED IN THE CLOSET AND ALSO THE WINDOWS WAS SECURED SHUTT THE MAN HAD JUST VANISHED INTO THIN AIR.
LILLY ORDERD ANNE NEVER TO SAY A WORD ABOUT THAT NIGHT AND ANNE REMEBERD A STRONG SULFER SMELL IN THE ROOM. BUT THEIR PACT OF SILENCE WAS SHATTERD 3 YEARS LATER WHEN THE STRANGER APPEARED UNINVITED AT PETRUS JOUBERT'S WEDDING DAY ON HIS FARM NOOITGEDAG WHICH HE HAD PURCHASED A FEW YEARS BACK.

BUT THAT IS PART OF A WHOLE DIFFERENT TALE I SHALL WRITE ABOUT LATER IN A FOLLOW UP TO THIS STORY.

BALLADE VAN DIE RYLOPER.

ALLEN OP DIE PAD,
SWERWER, ENKELING,
KARRE RY NET VERBY,
EN EK WONDER HOEKOM
NIEMAND MY WIL OP LAAI NIE...

AMAZING BODY ART.

TOE EK NOG N KINDERS WAS.

KINDERS MOET GEHOOR EN NIE GESIEN WORD NIE. WIE ONTHOU AS DAAR KUIER GASTE GEKOM HET EN DAAR WAS VIR JOU GESE JY KOM SIT NIE EN TEL DIE GROOT MENS SE TANDE NIE. JY MOES LEER GRAS SNY EN RANTE TRIM IN DIE TUIN, EN TOE EK N KIND WAS WAS DAAR NIE SO DING SOOS N WEED-EATER NIE. NEE WAT PAPPA DIE RANTE WAS AFGESPIT MET N GRAAF EN GESNY MET N SKAAPSKER.
MY PA HET SO OU VICTA TWO STROKE GRASSNYER GEHAD DIE TIPE WAAR AS JY TE VEEL OLIE SAAM MET DIE PETROL GEMENG HET DAN HET N BOL BLOU ROOK JOU DIE ERF VOL GEVOLG SOOS JY SNY.
SONDAE MIDDAE MOES JY SIT EN PA EN OUBOET SE SKOENE POLITOER VIR MAANDAG SE WERK EN SKOOL. ELKE OGGEND MOES JOU BED OP GEMAAK WEES EN JOU KAMER AAN DIE KANT. EN BEHOED JOU SIEL AS JOU KLEREKAS SOOS N VARKHOK GELYK HET.
MAAR KLOKSLAG ELKE 2DE SATERDAG VAN DIE MAAND WAS MY AF DAG EN PA EN MA HET MY ELK R5.00 IN DIE HAND GESTOP EN MY BEDANK VIR MY GOEIE HULP IN EN OM DIE HUIS. DAN HET EK EN MY NEEF DIE STRAATE IN GEVAAR AS RYK MENSE MET DIE WERELD AAN ONS VOETE.
EK ONTHOU EENDAG EN DIT IS DIE EEN INSIDENT AS KIND WAT IN MY KOP BLY VASSTEEK HET DEUR DIE JARE HEEN. EK WAS BESIG OM LEGGO TE BOU IN MY KAMER TOE MY MA MY GEROEP HET OM DIE VULLIS EMMER TE GAAN LEEG MAAK IN DIE KOMBUIS. EK WAS SO 13 OF 14 JAAR OUD EN SONDER OM TE DINK SKREEU EK EWE AROGANT TERUG VIR MY MA“ MAN EK KAN NIE NOU NIE EK IS BESIG!“

NOU LAAT EK NET DIT SE MY PA HET MY NET 2KEER IN MY LEWE N PAKSLAE GEGEE, EENKEER TOE EK DIE BUURMAN SE RUIT UIT GEGOOI HET NADAT EK EN BUURMAN SE SEUN GEWAARSKU WAS OM OP TE HOU MET ONS APOKOLIPTIESE KLONT GEVEG HEEN EN WEER OOR DIE HEINING. EN DIE 2DE KEER WAS DAAI DAG TOE EK MY MA SO AROGANT GEANTWOORD HET.
EK HET GEDINK EK LEGGO NOG TOE TRAP MY VOETE LUG SOOS MY PA MY SOMER SO AAN DIE NEK OPTEL EN MY GAT ROOIWARM LOOI MET DIE PLATHAND. NA WAT SOOS N EWIGHEID GEVOEL HET HY BY MY KOM SIT MET SY ARM OM MY SKOUER EN IN N SAGTE STEM VIR MY GESE, “MY SEUN PA IS BAIE LIEF VIR JOU MAAR JY SAL NOOIT OOIT WEER SO LELIK MET MAMMA OF ENIGE ANDER VROU PRAAT NIE, HET JY AL OOIT GEHOOR PAPPA PRAAT SO MET MAMMA?”
EK WEET NIE WAT WAS ERGER NIE DIE PAKSLAE OF DIE WOORDE VAN MY PA? MAAR NOOIT WEER HET EK SO MET MY MA GEPRAAT NIE. SELFS DEUR MY REBELSE FASES HET MY PA SE WOORDE IN MY KOP GEBLY.
EK WIL NET SE DANKIE PA DIT HET VAN MY BETER MENS GEMAAK.

NOU SO 2 WEKE GELEDE GAAN KUIER EK BY N VRIEND VAN MY EN SY VROU. EK WORD VRIENDELIK INGENOOI IN DIE „TV“ KAMER EN KOFFIE WORD BEDIEN. SY 2 SEUNS 1 IS 12 DIE ANDER IS 10 SIT KRUISBEEN VASGENAAL VOOR DIE „TV“ MET N PLAY STATION GAME. BUITE IN MY VRIEND SE ERF WAS N OU SWART MAN BESIG OM DIE GRAS TE SNY. IN DIE 2 URE WAT EK DAAR GEKUIER HET WAS EK GELUKKIG AS EK MEER AS 2 WOORDE UIT MY PEL SE MOND GEHOOR HET. HY WAS TE BESIG OM PLAY STATION SAAM MET SY 2 SEUNS TE SPEEL. AL 2 SY SEUNS IS STEWIGE VET POTJIE ROLLE EN MA HET SOMER DIE VORIGE AAND SE LEFT OVER „KFC“ WARM GEMAAK VIR LUNCH. SY VROU HET GEMERK EK IS ONGEMAKLIK EN HET MAAR TOE N GESPREK MET MY GEVOER OOR HAAR SCRAP BOOKING BESIGHEID EN DIE MISLIKE SKINDERBEK BITCH BY DIE HAARSALON. TUSSEN DIT DEUR HET MY VRIEND HARD VOOR SY SEUNS GELAG EN GESE “JA DAAI VOKEN TEEF IS GIF HOOR.“
LUIDKEELS GIL SY OUDSTE SEUN AG VOK TOE HY VERLOOR OP SY GAME EN MY VRIEND LAG EN SE KOM GEE PA N TRY. JENNY SO SPREEK DIE KINDERS MY VRIEND SE VROU AAN,“ GAAN GOOI VIR MY COKE IN,“ SE DIE JONGSTE TERWYL HY OOPBEK SIT EN STAAR NA DIE SKERM. EN GEDWEE GAAN DOEN SY SOOS HY BEVEEL EN TOE SY DIT BRING SE DIE ANDER SEUN „EK SOEK OOK N GLAS.“
WEL DIT WAS MY LAASTE KUIER BY MY VRIEND SE HUIS VIR N BAIE LANG TYD. EN SOOS EK WEGRY TERUG NA MY HUIS TOE DINK EK AAN MY KINDERDAE EN ONTHOU EK MY PA SE WOORDE…. EN IN MY TRU SPIEEL SIEN EK DIE OU TUIN WERKER BESIG OM DIE SYPAAIDJIE RANTE TE TRIM MET MY VRIEND SE WEE-EATER.

NIE WEER NIE.

SHINE.

"We'll always be together. Forever"
"Sweet dreams."

Mirror, Mirror
This is the place
Where love is broken down
I'm barely free
As I want you now
Misery - seems so cold out
Misery - am I dead now

Shine - enlighten me - shine
Shine - awaken me - shine
Shine - for all your suffering - shine
Shine - she's mine

My face now pressed against the glass
The winter here it seems to last
Mirror, what they see
Misery in me

Shine - enlighten me - shine
Shine - awaken me - shine
Shine - for all your suffering - shine
Shine

Malachi

"Shine like a mirror reflecting, like the sun shines -- something that comes from above, when all that remains falls below."

Bow before Hecate
Man of fortune
Man of shame
She's gonna reach for
The hearts of all of you
And I know her eyes are true

In a fatal world,
They're afraid of what she brings
In an unknown world
There are fears of nothing

And I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid

I will bring her down
Lord I'm barely human
I could raise her now
But I can't bear to lose her

I'm not afraid

I'm freezing, I'm waiting
All winter, her season
Asleep now I wait here
Awaken
I can't let go

The winter - the winter - the winter
She's here again
Is this the end
Here there's nothing left
Laid to rest now
Can't look away
I keep holding her
Winter without me seems so beautiful

Be not afraid of the ways she brings
No, I'm not afraid of the way she shines

ARTIST CARL MACOY FROM THE ALBUM ZOON UNDER THE NEPHILIM BAND .