It all Began

That fateful day

that picture was flashed across the world 

I remember it well 

as if it was yesterday!

MANLEY HUG CASTRO! 

Headline news 

"JAMAICA TURN COMMUNIST" they said

and the guns came flooding in,

counterfeit dollars 

destabilising the economy,

mass unemployment

despair 

  misery

    poverty

       drugs 

destroying the tourist industry.

It all began that day 

the downward spiral of Jamaica 

Crime rate higher than new York,

more and more people 

    cant find no work

Farmers forced to grow weed,

supplement their daily need 

the rising cost of fertilizer 

     and seed.

It all began that day

I remember it well 

as if it were yesterday

the people couldn’t take no more 

the years of neglect 

corruption exploded 

into civil war 

Arson attacks 

   Shootings 

      Killings 

the people couldn’t take no more. 

I remember it well that day

I cried for my country.