A Thousand Months to Live

Sep 29, 2020 Letters

Dear Editor.

They say that from when we born
we got a thousand months to live.
For people of my age and around
we gat a hundred left – maybe.

And even though I’m not a citizen,
and no longer live in motherland
and it’s of no personal benefit to me,
It irks me about the acrimonies I hear
around money left upon the table.

Fifty five billion gets thrown around
as if it were calculated using gospel.
The fact is no one really knows
the price of oil, next year or the next.
Educated guess no doubt,
but still numbers in the air.

Nine months since the oil been flowing
but at half the volume they projected
selling at fraction of de price expected.
Sometimes not even covering de cost.

The oil business is a behemoth
that sometimes falls upon its face.
Numbers based on good times
can often bite you in the rear.

Covid 19, wild fires in the west,
hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico,
climate change and global warming,
attributed to burning fossil fuels
are impacting how much they are used.

With so much oil, in billions of BOE
even if you got eight or even thirty,
remember Venezuela has three hundred,
and have been producing for a century:
there’s is no guarantee in oil’s bounty.

They say that oil don’t spoil.
Note also, you cannot drink am.
No meck your face so long
about the mistakes already made.
Resolve to avoid them in de future
and to wisely use what you have already
earned from your station at the table.

Every month that’s wasted now
is one month less to enjoy.
“One, one dutty does build dam.”
When you teck dutty to build dam
what you leave behind is trench.
Walk good and travel safe pon dam top
and ketch plenty fish from trench.

Yours truly,
Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh

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