Haggatts, the foundation of my origins!
By Stanley Collymore
Forged into existence from the tedious and back-breaking
toil of sugar cane labourers and the skilled endeavours
of cane factory employees and agricultural workers,
you’ve been sandwiched between the impressive
contours of Chalky Mount and Lakes Village
on your eastern flank, Belleplaine on your
northern perimeter and the rolling hills
of St. Simons on your western border.
While, simultaneously, the majestic and unimpeded flow of
the crystal clear, spring waters of Haggatts and Bruce
Vale Rivers, copiously and unifyingly adding their
voluminous quantity, quality and glimmering
brilliance, in the locality of Lakes Bridge,
to those of Lakes River, jointly amidst
all this practically and most beneficially making their
indispensable and appreciated contributions to the
continuous, splendid and widespread irrigation
of an absolutely picturesque, immaculately
pristine and– unmistakably for me and
similarly all those who proudly and
supportively share the same local
origins as well as a cultural and
social empathy with this our
beloved region– a flawless
and undisputable beacon
highlighting everything
here that’s both proper
and principled about
humanity and that
the wider world,
in general, in its
wisdom would
do fine to copy
and afterwards
aptly become.
© Stanley V. Collymore
3 October 2019.
Author’s Comments:
There is no other place on Earth that I owe so very much to - and will enduringly remember that - than my beloved Haggatts and Lakes Districts in St. Andrew, Barbados.
