Caribbean Life Impact Awards, F 18A ebruary 12-18, 2021
My Caribbean Anthem
Poem by: James C. Richmond
Over years we toiled, over time as a people;
Looking for common love
We garnered and nurtured our freedoms
Like sunlit crimson rays from above
And thank heaven for new and free Nations as they evolved.
Born from the sweat of our brow, our strong will and heart
Out of the Caribbean struggles,
To a future that we will chart
Like Toussaint, like Nanny the Maroon,
Like Cuffy we’ll do our part.
Like Cecil Rawle, like Tubal Uriah Butler, our heroes who
Broke the yoke of bondage; and for freedom yearned
Ours are the hope of our children yet unborn
Unbridled, unbought, unbossed
A new Caribbean Man, A new Caribbean Woman
So proud, so great and so strong
We sing our victorious hymns and litanies
We speak our poetries
Our common bond like Calypso,
Like steelpan marvelous sound
Common bond like Reggae,
Like Soca, and where cricket lovers abound
The rich lingering ancestral culture bore
A new Caribbean nation to uphold
Unbridled, unbought, unbossed
A new Caribbean Man, A new Caribbean Woman
So proud, so great and so strong
We pledge ourselves to our blessed Caribbean
To our tranquiled white sandy shores
And our tropical earth beyond
O the beautiful blue ocean waves
And our blue mountain peaks
Where our black muddy water spans our birth and speaks
Of our history and the victories we seek
We pledge ourselves to our Caribbean earth
O land that gave us birth
Unbridled, unbought, unbossed
A new Caribbean Man,
A new Caribbean Woman
So proud, so great and so strong.