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May 26, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists
In the great hall of nations, the curtain still rises—
A stage set with sugar fields and offshore fires,
With Exxon scripts and Chinese cranes,
While democracy plays to standing-room actors.
Fifty-nine candles flicker on freedom’s cake,
But whose breath blows them out, and for whose sake?
The oil runs thick, but trust runs thin,
And unity, that stubborn dream, still fights to begin.
This land of six races, stitched from struggle and sea,
Still argues its colours in broken harmony.
A whisper of Burnham, a murmur of Jagan,
Echo in markets where the people still bargain.
We’ve built highways to nowhere,
And towers to the sky,
But sinkholes in fairness
Let our hopes go by.
The foreign gaze is greedy,
The local tongue too sly—
A nation sold in silence,
While the old wounds cry.
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