A November to Remember

October is gone

And November has dawned,

We are into Independence

And that mood is on.

How fast it has fled

The month of October!

But we must still be prepared

The storm season’s not over.

Thirty days to celebrate

Barbados our island home,

In two thousand and eighteen

We are fifty-two years grown.

We have come a long way

There’ve been ups and downs

And many since 1966

Are no longer around.

To call their names

Would take quite a long time

And the truth is also

Many won’t come to mind.

We reminisce on that night

And that great Garrison crowd,

We remember with nostalgia

Boy that crowd was loud.

Currently we are going though

An economic impasse,

Our country is faced

With a very difficult task.

We have consulted the IMF

And requested its aid

But we must also find ways

That will boost our trade.

We must grow the economy

By producing more and more

And maybe in a few years time

We can begin to soar.

As we come together

To celebrate this November

Let us make this a time

That we will long remember.

With God as our Head

We can do so this month

And as we celebrate Independence

Through Him we will triumph.

Not by just talking it

But purposefully walking it too

So that God may be honoured

In all that we do.

Stewart Russell © November 2018