MY BAHAMAS

Beautiful Gem of the Sea
Although sometimes you fall and bruise your knee
Yet their is still such a beautiful sparkle in your eye
As clear and undeniable as the blue of your golden
Sun filled sky

My Bahamas part of my heart and soul

How you first crept, then stood then walked so briskly and free
Yet along the way you have fallen and stood again
As you grew
A new sapling of a tree
Many would pillage your shores, but still you shone out
beautiful even more

My Bahamas God's gift that will be restored

Crime, violence, injustice and so much darkness
Like sooth will try to blemish
You my beautiful pearl,
Yet with head held high,
The manner of your bearing is marked by the world

My Bahamas bearer of each boy and girl of the soil

Who can truly know how deep your roots go
Which grow from the belly of the sea,
And bear children of every hew, fruit and love
Unique in the storehouse of her natural beauty
Smiled upon even after the storm, with the rainbow of God's Love

My Bahamas beautiful and free

Upon your age of initiation, like the rings of the the tree

Forty you have achieved, creeping, crawling, walking, falling
yet still growing with a future bright for those who can see
No one knows what your end will be,
But I love you my beautiful Bahamas
With all your blemishes

My Bahamas beautiful gem, Blessed by our Creator
The Only home for Me.