OIL OF REGRESS

Put down your hoes

Put down your cutlasses

And dig deep

Put away your cocoa 

and coffee

Forget your sugarcane

and rice

And dig deep

Until your palms

 are greasy

And the fulcrum

 of economy suffers from

 dependency

Dig deep

Call  the neo-colonist

With tax concessions

To join the gang

 of riggers

For this

Multinational’s treat

Pay Leasers and farm 

outages

for high quality 

water concoctions

Prices that are

Steep,steep

Let local small boats 

with double tanks

and no catch

sell it down the islands

cheap,cheap,

Until your palms

are greasy

And the panorama

of T&T suffers from

dependency

Dig deep

Dig out the eye

of progress

Dig out the eye

 of redress

and enjoy 

this oil of regress

The only losers here 

Are we

Copyright©2017 by Camille Caliscia Patrick

When Oil Spills Over;When Gas Ignites