GIVE PRAISES!
I give praises to unto the Most High Creator
who has given I the strength to know truth
the faith to accept truth
and the wisdom to aspire to live truth.

I was born and I live right here, I travel elsewhere
but I love right here.
I grow right here at East and New Market streets, play
cricket pon de grass dam, feel foh patwa in East
Street trench an shoot 'SPONGE-DOWN' who use to
bathe dead wid staple-gun at Christmas time.

Right here I go to school
Main Street School
blue uniform an red and white tie
B.G. Trust
Examinations fuss
work in de Civil Service
and clean nuff blackboard
as a school teacher.

Right here
I get to know Lucius Rum Shop
an' Tipperary Dance Hall
marrid two time and most times
had a ball
but that is all.
I ride bicycle, motor-bike and
crash motor-car.
I got girlfriend, good friend
I-dren an' Brethren
but only one love.
JAH RASTAFARI.

"FREEDOM"
Freedom's not a loaf
for hunger
is not always belly deep.
Freedom's not a roof
for there is no shelter
from the poverty of bondage.
Freedom's not a covered loin
for who can clothe
the truth with lies?
Yes Freedom is a people's right
to speak and sing their plight.
Freedom is for peoples Justice
not for rule-by-might.
Freedom is the right to choose
which bread a man must break.
Freedom is the right to choose
which path a youth must take.
Freedom is man's birthright
For Freedom he must fight.

Rasmichael is a Guyanese journalist living in Maryland.