We Didn’t See A Single One

When we went to the beach

Eighty or more passers by and each

Doing the unusual, picking up

Items discarded, a Styrofoam plate a paper cup

Didn’t know then what we know now

No one told us and we remained ignorant somehow

The Future Centre organized that they would clean

Some of our beaches with a slogan go green

Environmentally conscious who want to see

Ecological balance and a cleaner society

And so in numbers they came out

Shouldering plastic bags and all about

In the morning at 7:30 there, above Brandons

Numerous volunteers worked like loyal citizens

Gathering the garbage others left around

Lying and blowing in the bush and on the ground

Every imaginable object placed into collection bags

Objects non degradable, rejected old rags

National effort was to Clean up Barbados of illegal dumping too

Except we didn’t see a single politician trying, did you?