BEULAH LAND By Kenvil Atkins BEULAH LAND Oh beautiful St. Lucia Island in the sun I did not leave because I hated thee You are dear to me like a cup of cool Clearwater But the pioneer spirit would not let me be It's in my blood and pushes me onward But I vouch someday to return my love Today my soul mourns for thee seeing your Dying ambers The young and old have been taken, hostage Rule by a government of weak hearts There is a brewing cancer governed by a nest Of scorpions and vipers of all kinds For a few trinkets, they come by the shipload To your shores Recking havoc on a then our peaceful nation Of God-fearing people who live by the rules Now it is too late your birthright has been stolen Sold to the highest bidder By the very same people you love and protect They open your door to strange people with Strange custom intending to dominate Placing a choke hold around your neck force You into submission slavery Some came bearing gifts making us a gluttony People rotten fruits at that poisoning this Generation for gain and security Now they openly bear arms against us killing Our people at random Our loving citizen of the sun Island will soon be no more The killing has become a way of life a vice adopted By devels and passing it on to our youth For a mere trinket While our leaders twirl their fingers looking for another Bribe another dollar of useless infidels Our creole heritage is soon to become a thing Of the past Replace it with Twanise jumbo Mombo or Chinese Chin Chung Our land of peace our beautiful St. Lucia has Become a vipers paradise Fellow brothers and sisters beloved of St. Lucia There is no time left for slumber Open your eyes to the destruction around you The degradation and dysfunction of warm people I am not at present with you but urge you to Harness your God-given birthright And rise to a new beginning a new dawning Arm your selves with integrity love and fellowship Trod on the belly of the snakes and shout upon the Rooftops a call to arms Cleanse the land that gave you birth the land of Hills and valleys Farest Isles of all the earth I came back to see you live among you But you plunder my resources and left me wanting Nevertheless, I love you like my brethren' mind and body The die is cast now is the time to root out evil in your Community your villages your cities and yourselves May the glory of Jehovah whom I served shine upon You as you fight the good fight The age of killing must stop now and only you can Accomplish this if not prepare yourself for a mass Burial of a once peace-loving creole people I now leave you to summon up your courage