Jamaica was once the tourist haven where foreign women were glad to come and experience the Jamaica male sexuality.This had led Jamaican to coin the term "Rent a dread".

Just Like Me

Sitting on this bench inhaling marijuana,

I hate the stench, the smell killing me

That to some is sweet aroma,

Observing the dread locked guy,

 On the opposite bench, a bald head,

Sitting on the bench just like me.

The dread was not smoking,

Surely no vagrant,

Just sitting on the beinch

In this magnificent mall

Waiting, just like me, just like me.

Watching individuals passing,

Maybe they wonder why I am pausing,

I’m observing their many crossings.

Here two now come pausing

On the same bench come sitting

Just like me, just like me.

I wonder are they really just like me

These two beside me black and white

Caught up in their own fantasy world,
Ages wide gaps apart,

Lovers ?

Looking like grandma and grandson,

Cared not what others may be thinking,

Fondling, necking, hugging, kissing.

Sitting on the bench

Just like me, just like me,

 Waiting.

 20 years have gone by

 With them come the

  Imagery of two lovers on that bench.

Making the most of the time

They had.

Where are they now.

Maybe gazing down memory lane,

 smiling.

I wish I were now

 standing in 

Their shoes 

waiting.

     Soy Criada