OVERARCHING VISCOSITY

The sun rises to awake the morning

with a joyous heat which warms the ocean

And pelicans refuse  to touch waters 

which no longer reflect their skillful  catch

An overarching viscosity

fumes with toxins 

at the  Gulf of Paria  

Where stomachs ache over  disunity

as black shadows of crude 

 hover the tearful worries of hunger 

when Caribbean fish rest

in floating shoals of oil batter

And angry fisherfolk chatter 

Of crude restraints

 on propellers of futile lip syncs

 of State Entities 

And careless acts of humanity 

Now at the foreshore

of this Waterfront

Where greasy palms intertwined

To seal pacts of silence

with ghost gangs of workers

subsidy gags
bid rigs

and  Petro - dollars

So when Trinis cry this century

from  toxins 

which burn their eyes

and upset their stomachs

and empty their pockets

and deploy their economy-

to wanton diversity

They will cry in anger

as they cry in sadness,

over past  bliss 

now masked

by fluid regrets

of Oil Spillage

                                        

Copyright©2017 by Camille Caliscia Patrick

When Oil Spills Over;When Gas Ignites