Ryan Hadeed
So 2016 finds us wondering how we doing?
Will this year bring us one step closer to ruin?
The price of oil may continue to fall.
Meaning many of us will only continue to bawl.
So why aren’t there more of us filled with fear.
Oh yes that’s right, Trinis really don’t care.
Of course we’re all concerned about the crime.
But more concerned are we about where’s the lime.
Whatever the news, it’s just more of the same.
Better to ignore it all than feel the pain.
When people complain about how prices so dear.
They really studying how dey playin’ Carnival this year.
They’ll always find a way to pay for costume and fete.
Even if they have to borrow, take a loan, or place a bet.
Soon de party will end after we’ve spent a tidy sum.
And the bills, at month’s end, will still come.
For the folks at the top, whose salaries nice and fat.
How to make ends meet, they not worrying about dat.
Whether PNM or UNC, all politicians cause me to lament.
I mean, just look at the characters sitting in Parliament.
Their shameful behaviour is all that we witness.
Talking plenty of picong, instead of national business.
Ultimately they fixin’ up anyone they call a friend.
With a house or a contract with no real end.
You see it isn’t about the duty of their post.
The name of the game is who can steal the most.
Keith tellin’ us tighten and yet he flyin’ all about.
Like if it wasn’t already hard to put food in we mouth.
And after wasting her chance, Kamla now has plenty to say.
The mismanagement was hers, but we have to pay.
So go ahead brothers and sisters, support your party.
After all they both take turns at running this country.
I am neither the voice in the wilderness nor the midnight robber.
But this sad state of affairs provides lyrical fodder.
You see we all love to rant on Facebook and Whatsapp.
Yet between sympathy and action there seems to be a gap.
There are problems galore, and we all make a fuss.
It’s only lip service until it happens to us.
In the past I did more than sit idly by and moan.
Eventually I grew tired of seeing how corruption has grown.
The Treasury empty, wasted on some mega project.
Now is tax in we backside, and pardner they coming to collect.
Times are hard and we’ll just have to do without.
Things could only get worse, is there any doubt?
The fault is our own, in reality we lost touch.
A shame considering we are blessed with so much.
It’s because “God is a Trini,” we all like to think so.
But I think even He left this place a long time ago.
