POEM OF THE WEEK
Proud to be Jamaican
They have taken my identity
They say we don't know who we are
Telling us lies to our faces
And laugh at us from afar
Have we fallen so far as a nation?
Have we become so lost as a people?
They have desecrated our highest symbol
While our leaders sit in silence
Politics or principle?
You tell me what do you see
After 50 years of Independence
Is this the people we aspire to be?
Jamaica land of promise
But do our leaders really care?
Are we sailing hopeless oceans?
And if so, who led us here?
We are so much better than whom we were
We can be so much greater than what we have become
Without vision we truly perish
Let's open our eyes and rise from the slum
Feel the heart and soul of a nation
Let's show the world we are alive
For no matter our colour or choices
Together we are Jamaica
- Joseph J. Powell
Confused
I am lost
Alone and confused
I don't know where I am
Or who I am
I trod this lonely road
Hoping to be rescued
To be shown the right path
For I see too many routes
Uncertain of which
To choose
I wish someone would just
Tell me
What to do
And
Where to go
But I guess
The only one who can
Is sitting before me
In that mirror
No one else can live my
Life
No one else can be me
- Theresa Peters
London Olympics
London is made of bricks
But the Olympics is made
Of stars from near and far
Some predict the London
Olympics are going is to be a
Classic and historic
Experience for the British
People and the rest of the world
- Damion McCatty
Waiting for love
I just want to let you know that I'm consumed
Hoping that you'll be in my life very soon
It's just amazing how I could ever love so much
But even more mysterious is how I need your touch
You, the extraordinary one of whom I constantly think
The girl whose heart I want mine to link
Your enticing body that just makes me insane
Oh, my darling, don't make me wait in vain
From your ravishing eyes to your gracious legs
Inciting a passion that makes me beg
Hug me a second and my body will cease
Kiss me a minute and my craving will ease
Love me an hour and surely I'll be yours
I'm infected with a passion that only you can cure
Stay with me forever and my life will be valid
Give me your heart and your love will make me live
- Orette C. Burke
That one
I give you my love
I give you my heart
I'll always be yours
In light and in dark
We have a love
To none compare
No one can break us
Even when they dare
I ask God every day
Who is the one?
And the answer I get is
Always
That one
- Roxann Williams
Please remember
We met, you said you loved me
I believed it, I saw it in your eyes
Your voice had such a smooth texture but now it's filled with lies
Then you said you adored me and for me you wrote a song
but now you sing hatred
your fingers play along
You used to send me pictures of your body with full details
but now you reflect dark images of night and dawn
No days
You used to say you love me and hold me in your arms
your breath, your lips, your muscular hips, a body engulfed in warmth
So please remember those times
And the things you used to do
Please bring back those moments
Those nights were never through
- Quickore Bennett
Pain
Pain is a part of life
please accept that fact
pain will always be around like an annoying fly
buzzing at your ears
except pain buzzes and annoys your heart
pain is a part of life
please accept that fact
pain is here and there to make you stronger
so why let it break and shake you?
Is it not a part of our natural lives?
Pain is part of life
please accept that fact
it will creep up on you
it does not care if you are blessed or stressed, rich or poor
beautiful or not
it attacks as it may and as it will
so please accept that
- Randeen Patterson
My pain
A broken soul and mind
Hidden by a smile and fake happiness
Earphones pumping a favourite song
Soothing the hidden pain
The pain caused by irreconcilable differences
A family no more
A home no more
Just a building with memories
A happy child hiding under a table waiting to be found
A happy mother preparing the Sunday dinner
And a happy father humming a song
All gone
Replaced by bitterness, sadness, betrayal and heartache
My heartache, my pain
The tears are a welcomed warmth
A release of frustrations and hurt sealed inside
Memories of being used and tossed aside
Depressed and suicidal
No one cares of my pain
Lonely, though surrounded by friends
Sad, though laughing
Just empty
An empty soul waiting to be filled by your love
Any love, just love
That's all I need to soothe my pain
- Chandia Walters