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Switched on, I function
As any normal human should—
Work/ rest
Eat/shit
Read/ recreate and love—
Trying to use up every minute;
Do some good
In my heart
My neighbourhood
I don’t litter or act bitter
Toward thoughtless neighbours
Who burn plastic/styrofoam and rubber
I try to backfill empty brains
Scrub off blockage; feed clarity to marginalized ears;
Addressing the emptiness inside leaking skulls
And shrinking hearts
With my fledgling little words
Offering options like:
” Is it possible to recycle?”
Switched on, I struggle to find
The Reset Button
so that we could start over
—get it right this time—
keep the poison away from our homes
/our minds
Neutralize it with sensible fairplay principles;
avoid being drowned in garbage…
Dubbed the unofficial poet laureate of the Grenada Revolution, Gavin Stewart now resides with his family in Trinidad and Tobago.