With A Heart Attack Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Danie and Ansie Brand)

With a heart attack Neville passed from life,
where that thing cuts right through any parent.
With Your Son the thunder flashed, the sun stopped shining,
when You saw Him suffer innocently for humanity.

My cousin is nearer than a blood brother to me.
My God, how do a person stop the pain of a father and mother?
I could not stop that terrible thing with high-blood pressure,
with a heart attack Neville passed from life.

I called upon You and was still conscious,
my lungs wanted to explode but You were like always near.
There was pain and sweat on Neville's face.
(where that thing cuts right through any parent) ,

his fiancée found him on the bed dying
(she is shattered as she was hair-fine set on him) ,
the pickup truck was packed as Neville wanted do drive to the farm.
With Your Son the thunder flashed, the sun stopped shining,

every person in heaven, every angel and cherub, wanted to intervene
but that shameful death for everyone's sin did not pass Your Son
and the temple's thick curtain was torn right through,
when You saw Him suffer innocently for humanity.

With pain in his chest Neville were dying,
the ambulance and doctor was too slow at the help-line,
while with his fiancée he struggled between life and death
and his fiancée later shocked and defenceless stood at the doorframe,
with a heart attack.