Culturally Impoverished
Its been years since I last saw a butterfly or the blades of grass I used to make whistle from, or a loop to catch a lizard. If we still kept some of the old style buses we may have been able to have them move slowly through our towns so that people can hop them and take a free ride the lengths of the city and remove the congestion.
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Culturally Impoverished Can we teach the youngsters the things we knew Urban life has made our culture taboo Lots of the things we knew as little kids Today are foreign and lifestyle forbids Using toys they created from scratch Rollers with bicycle wheels or wooden ‘T” shape with 2
wheels to match And Gutter perks, sling shots and a branch to stick lick Lots of them now practice to box and kick Lots more stay at home with some digital computerize game
You’ll never hear Push Push catch a corner, so what’s our
aim? I missed Black Bitch, Ice Blocks, Bandits and Star
Lights Marbles, playing holes, Dandy Lion Pictures and Flag at
nights People have forgotten how to hop a bus and letting the
tarp down Our Kids didn’t even see cane trash lying on the ground Very few know the smell of the molasses from the
plantation Even fewer know the taste of cane juice, and call themselves
Bajan! Remember frogs in dozens crossing the roads In fields butterflies and lady birds out numbering these
toads So much of pass Have these new desires to live in Luxury Eliminate all semblance of life back then Don’t we want to share Beautiful |
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