Dear Editor,
After Elizabeth’s visit for the Crown
A new nation was born
Black and brown
And a bit of white, yellow and tan
Not forgetting Amerindian.
A lawyer and dentist or was it optician?
A pagan ritual of progression
Apan jhat election
British and American selection
Constitution suspension
Marxism and socialism not federalism
Elections again and again and again.
Berlin Wall fall, free and fair elections
An overdue Presidential ovation
Returning diaspora nation
Berbice Babu John cremation.
Gun boats of Surinam
International Court of Arbitration
First oil celebration, Georgetown.
For a nation hurt by the arrows of history
A decent score is not out fifty
How about a government of national unity?
One People, One Nation, One Destiny.
Just a thought in the Land of the Free, apparently.
Yours faithfully,
R.S. Drepaul
