so much to say

 shaping a moment in the curving stream
no one could doubt that monster had been there
you did not wait nor did you want to stare
there was no dragon that could make more steam
than came that second what we have to deem
a proper cloaking of the midday air
is now in place and all would seem so fair
if you alone would not call us extreme
so name the motion of the water true
it will not matter when all children go
back to their duties and the rains return
we think that each should get the honour due
when what will happen is that we should know
only enough to say just who should burn

Another small achievement in the sphere of academic publication

"Public Scholarship and Political Action:
The Memory of Walter Rodney in Jamaica"
F.S.J. Ledgister and Anita M.Waters

in Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas Vol 11 No. 1 (Winter 2008)
 

getting deeper into analysis

you think this is the answer but you're wrong
all that we do amounts to one big sigh
we turn out in the morning for a song

the usual explanation takes too long
instead you opt for one synthetic lie
you think this is the answer but you're wrong

the weak will always overcome the strong
but not by waiting for an easy sky
we turn out in the morning for a song

this is the way to break out of the throng
and not surprise the one who's asking why
you think this is the answer but you're wrong

so much depends on saying you belong
inside the lines and that you will comply
we turn out in the morning for a song

the choice we have to make on either prong
is one that makes the most sense to the eye
you think this is the answer but you're wrong
we turn out in the morning for a song