AFTERMATHAuthor(s): RONALD FAGANSource: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1, ELECTORAL POLITICS (MARCH, 1981), p. 94Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean QuarterlyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40653416 .

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Now they will sieze the guns and stop the fights And maybe we can sleep at nights, But will there really be a healing? Can we erase all ill feeling And simply admit "we were mad" And "now it's over we are glad"?

Can conscience ignore the many dead Or the countless numbers who have bled? Can the memory of those who felt and saw Be smothered by "the course of the law"? Was "Progress" worth the sacrifice? Or "Deliverance" such high a price?

Just pointing fingers and aiming blame Will never for a moment ease our shame. My brother died and so did yours There are orphaned children at our doors They are the future- let them grow And rise, for we have sunk so low.

RONALD FAGAN

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