{"id":35953,"date":"2011-05-25T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=35953"},"modified":"2011-05-25T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:35:13","slug":"poem-if-dominica-could-talk-what-would-she-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/poetry\/poem-if-dominica-could-talk-what-would-she-say\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: If Dominica could talk, what would she say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35954\" title=\"satellite dominica 2\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/satellite-dominica-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/satellite-dominica-2.jpg 216w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/satellite-dominica-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/satellite-dominica-2-113x113.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>Why am I tinted &#8230;didn&#8217;t you like what you see<br \/>\nYou have placed a shadow of darkness over me<br \/>\nI am no longer the happy<br \/>\nI am no longer the free<br \/>\nRemember that&#8217;s what you fought so hard for me to be<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no longer the sweet taste of purity<br \/>\nCause my pride you stole from me<br \/>\nI no longer have my own identity<br \/>\nAnd u slowly tarnished my credibility<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no longer praised envied or admired<br \/>\nI was once the island most desired<br \/>\nYou abandon me when I needed you most<br \/>\nNow you are spread all over from coast to coast<br \/>\nYou allowed me to be populated by people I do not know<br \/>\nSo love for country they will never show<br \/>\nI&#8217;m being used, abused and disrespected<br \/>\nMy integrity and morals are misrepresented<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no longer the unspoiled the untouched<br \/>\nMy people why are u hurting me so much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why am I tinted &#8230;didn&#8217;t you like what you see You have placed a shadow of darkness over me I am no longer the happy I am no longer the free Remember that&#8217;s what you fought so hard for me&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":35954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: If Dominica could talk, what would she say? 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