Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Poetry: SCHOOL TIES



This unique
Stranglehold on the national
Consciousness
A collective obsession that has crossed
Oceans
To locales where local
Sports and social
Activity were long met with
Disdain at best
But where alumni
Have evangelized 
drawing from the glorious
Signs and wonders wrought on track
And field
Life may begin
At 40 for the Western powers but
On our island
Where the unique is
Commonplace
Life peaks and freezes in the
Secondary Period
And the National Stadium is a modern-day
Mesopotamia
Where legendary exploits become cultural artifacts
Lovingly preserved and
Inflated for perennial consumption
Bundled together and sealed with
Ties
In cliché colours: purple, blue, white, red and
Gold
Frayed perhaps but never
Severed and even now robustly
Pulling the world toward
Our little
Rock

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