You and I Both Can

 

 

Ambitious me

Ambitious you!

If you can accomplish

I can achieve too.

 

So be careful

I would admonish you,

Don’t do anything

I wouldn’t do.

 

The pot is black

But the kettle is too;

Both in the same hot water

Like me, like you.

 

Same complexion

And the same class,

Not an awful lot of pedigree

But we could pass.

 

Same community

Similar schools,

Harsun Kolij and Cawmere;

Different pools.

 

Ambitious me

Ambitious you!

If you can accomplish

I can achieve too.

 

HC, QC,

Then Combermere,

St Michael’s, Foundation

Five gone clear!

 

 

Lodge, Alexandra

CP and Alleyne

Not necessarily this order

But top-school scene.

 

All Grammar schools

And older too

To differentiate between

The old and the new.

 

Comprehensive

Newer secondary

Other school categories

Though kind o’ silly.

 

Ambitious me

Ambitious you!

If you can accomplish

I can achieve too.

 

Doesn’t matter

Just push on through!

What you can achieve

I can too.

 

Competition rife

But that is life

Meaning none of us needs

To resort to strife.

 

 

Deighton Griffith

And Ellerslie

Lester Vaughan Memorial

Another three.

 

 

Springer Memorial

And St. Leonard’s no fools

Two options here

For single sex schools.

 

 

Parkinson, St. George

And Graydon Sealy,

Three more I can recall

From memory.

 

The Daryl Jordan

And the Fredrick Smith,

Add Princess Margaret also

To the list.

 

One more to come

And we are done,

The only one that is missing

Is Grantley Adams.

 

 

 

 

All secondary

Twenty-one schools

Don’t you dare blame any

For turning out fools.

 

Ambitious me

Ambitious you!

If you can accomplish

I can achieve too.

 

Send school children

Where they live

Or as close as is possible,

The best we can give.

 

Build community

Around the school,

One to advance the other

Is a good rule.

 

Stewart Russell © June 22, 2024