Wake Up Dems!

 

 

Wake up Dems

From your delusions of grandeur!

Take the blind folds off your eyes

And see the bigger picture.

 

Party before self

Though not before integrity,

On this memorial Errol Barrow Day

Seek party dignity.

 

For it has waned and waned

Until it’s almost gone,

At least that’s how it appears to me

Every awakening dawn.

 

 

Your mirror image is blurred:

Evidenced by a MY-opic view

And you have forgotten the purpose

Out of which the party grew.

 

The gender-struggle

And old guard versus young

Give the Bs the more weaponry

To knock you around.

 

It is acutely heart wrenching

On this Errol Barrow Day

To see how far you have departed

From the Errol Barrow way.

 

You are asleep in your misery

While this country suffers

And I dare say as long you in-fight

Democracy won’t prosper.

 

Who will light the fire

To scorch the heels of the Bs

Rather than this senseless pulling down

Of the Errol Barrow Ds?

 

Barbados is in dire need

For an alternate governance

But given the hapless current trends

There’s not a chance.

 

Either your base has dwindled

Or you need stir it up

For unless you can win back past Ds,

You are out of luck.

 

 

The BLP will have it their way

For the next fifteen years

Whether PM Mia Mottley continues

Or she disappears.

 

I do not mean via death

So please, no such morbidity,

I am just remembering her own words

Particularly vividly.

 

So, wake up Dems

From your delusions of grandeur!

Get rid of the MY-opic view

And see the bigger picture.

 

 

Happy Errol Barrow Day

To one and all!

And to the Democratic Labour Party,

This is your wake-up call.

 

Stewart Russell © January 21, 2025