I AGREE completely with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Godfrey Skeete in his letter captioned ‘Stop Blaming  Marginalisation’ which was carried in the Thursday 1st March 2012 issue of your online paper. Here, expressed in poetic form, is my contribution to the theme touched upon by Mr. Skeette. I Thought You Left Your Chains in Massa Canefield

It’s about a hundred and fifty years now …
I see you brought your chains with you …
I thought you left them in massa canefield.
This isn’t the stuff we need for our journey.
A shackled mind
will never roam the free, wide,
welcoming world.
A shackled heart
forever lives in its cathedral
of selected wrongs.
A shackled intellect – hidebound –
tethers in the ruts of bitter logic.
Get rid of that baggage, my friend!
We have a far way to go.
To travel fast, we have to travel light.