When Nancy was a tiny tot <br />She sank beneath a wave. <br />Her family gathered on the spot, <br />Her precious life to save. <br /> <br /> <br />We dragged her from the water, <br />As her skin was turning blue. <br />We prayed to God, that with His help, <br />We'd know just what to do. <br /> <br /> <br />When mouth-to-mouth resuscitation <br />Wouldn't do the job, <br />Her daddy switched to 'pressure prone.' <br />At length, we heard her sob. <br /> <br /> <br />She coughed, and cried,,,, and then the color <br />Came back to her face, <br />As we, and others gathered there, <br />Praised God around that place. <br /> <br /> <br />And now, some twenty years gone by, <br />Our Nancy, once again, <br />Is stifled by some troubling things <br />So hard to comprehend. <br /> <br /> <br />We pray our adult Nancy will <br />Join with her family, <br />To save her life, and persevere, <br />With love and dignity. <br /> <br /> <br />(When she was two-and-a-half years old, <br />Nancy 's family saved her from drowning <br />in El Paso, Texas, in 1966.) <br /> <br />(This poem was written on October 22,1987.) <br /> <br />(Nancy died, tragically, in Virginia,1990.)<br /><br />Frank V. Gardner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nancy-s-life-to-save/
