What Kind of Republic?

 

 

What kind of Republic

Will we be getting?

In which international market

Will we be shopping?

 

A Banana Republic

On a slow boat to China?

Or perhaps, an inflated raft

Making its way to India?

 

An African Republic

As in "to Africa and back"

So that our African heritage

Can be back on track?

 

A Satellite Republic

As the moon is to the sun

Or friends of all

But sucking up to none?

 

Giving sanction to the EU

So, they won’t sanction us

Or just dropping the Monarchy

Without much fuss?

 

 

Becoming a Republic

And then decide what type

Or simply saying to the UK

Go take a hike?

 

When we say Republic

What am I to understand?

Is it just for the sake of change?

Do we have a plan?

 

Is that plan definitive

Or a plan as we go along

Like so-called plans nowadays

That leave us nowhere bound?

 

Will we have any idea

When we arrive there

Or will we be on a fast train

To absolutely nowhere?

 

What kind of Republic

Are we planning to be?

So far all I have been getting is

Let’s wait and see.

 

 

Nothing concrete except…

A plan to plan it afterwards:

Kind of cart before the horse

And going in backwards.

 

A Republic first

Then adjust the Constitution,

To some this sounds like

Rocket science innovation.

 

Marry the notion

And then change afterwards

Kind of cart before the horse

And going in backwards.

 

 

I know I repeated myself

But that’s a Republic repeated,

It’s just the same as before

With a few things tweeted.

 

A no-name change Republic

Still Barbados, no change,

Even as I ruminate on this

It seems rather strange.

 

I know a married woman

That kept her surname,

There was no problem though

His name was the same.

 

But seriously, though,

What kind of Republic?

There should be a conversation

To entertain the critics.

 

Educate the masses first

Explain what kind of Republic,

After, have a referendum;

That should do the trick.

 

 

Let the people have a say

As someone once promised,

That sounds like democracy

If you get my drift. 

 

A people’s Republic

Ah, that sounds kind of great,

We can start the process now,

It is not too late.

 

What kind of Republic?

I must ask myself again

So that at the end of the day

We are not just a name.

 

Stewart Russell © September 11, 2021