They stood solemnly around the huge mound of soil. Young men and women with their whole lives ahead of them. Some were wearing their school uniforms. Others were dressed in their Sunday best. Each face had it’s own mixture of disbelief and sadness. Only a week ago there had been no cause for such sadness. Cebo was alive and well. But today, the coffin of Cebo Xulu had just been lowered into the grave and now it was his friends’ responsibility to refill the huge void in the ground.
The whole Seed of Hope community was rocked by the tragic death of Cebo Xulu. He was brother to Thola, one of Seed of Hope’s children’s workers. As a young boy Cebo participated in the Simunye and afterschool programs. Musa remembers teaching him. Many other staff members reminisced about seeing him playing on the Seed of Hope property.
November 23, 2011. It was his 18th birthday and a walk to the store for treats ended in an altercation with a friend. Some insults were thrown back and forth over a cellphone memory card. The friend feeling bruised by the insults ran home for a kitchen knife and came back to intimidate Cebo. Cebo called the boy’s bluff and dared him to stab him. Caught up in a moment of rage, the friend lashed out and stabbed Cebo in the heart. This young, vital man fell to ground with a mortal wound. He was rushed to the hospital but there was nothing they could do with a stab wound to the heart.
Now family and friends were left to mourn a life ended too quickly (photos). Young men, one after the other, pick up a shovel and begin to slowly toss the soil onto the lid of the coffin. The first few throws are the most difficult. I can imaging them thinking, “I cannot believe that I am burying my friend.” Other’s wait their turn by standing alongside the grave and starting down into its darkness. It is an image I will never forget. And then a refrain of a song slowly floats into the air. One lone voice begins and soon others join it.
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“I wanna be there, oh I wanna be there!”
A reminder of heaven… The healing of hearts begins with song. Cebo would be welcomed into a new home and we grieve because we wanna be there with him!
KW