When Eight Policemen Flocked Around Me Poem by Gert Strydom

When eight policemen flocked around me
stood firm against me and tried to take me
power came from You
when the lot of them grimly

stared at me, as if this isn’t also my fatherland
and in my own country I do not anymore feel at home,
but I was aware of Your saving hand
with their intimidation and rumbling voices

even their mockery and hands on me
was already ruined
as they are only insignificant humans
and because I was without guilt

the lot of them had to let me go
and when thousands rise against me, they will also perish through You.

[References: Police intimidation by Gert Strydom. Deut 28: 7 and Psalm 91: 5-8.]