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Basil Waine Kong
Why I moved back to Jamaica
- Basil Waine Kong
- Kingston, Jamaica
- I lived foreign for fifty years and visited 100 countries but having spent my youth in St. Bess, my heart yearned for the charms of Jamaica. In the twilight of my years, I still get into the mood when the lightening quiver and it rains on my zinc roof. I linger over my memories. My heart will remain young as long as I can wake up with my wife,play a round of golf with friends and jump from my seat at Sabina Park when we lick a six. If it wasn't for ackee and salt fish, yam and boiled bananas with mackrel, I could eat cornpone every morning. "Hell a top, hell a bottom,Halleluja in the middle." I delight in a swim in the Sea, play dominoes by the road and watch the natural talents of our people unfold. Yu mek mi proud Usain! These experiences defines me as the Jamaican I am. With a nod to T.S. Elliott, after all my roaming, I have arrived where I started and getting to know the place for the first time. Time and distance claimed no victory over my affection because the songs of my people wash over me. I am at peace with my benediction. My anchor is dropped. There is no where else I want to be except Heaven where I can sit down happy. “Nuh weh nuh better than yard”.
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