St. Maarten Private Eye

Dear Santa

I was making my list for Christmas and strangely enough I realized,
I no longer want toys and games, or even socks or shirts or ties

For the first time on Christmas I am thinking of more than all the fuss
But our basic rights that our government has taken away from us.

I want running water every day, not to find my water off anymore
Can’t take a shower or flush the toilet, wash the clothes or even mop the floor

I want the traffic jams to disappear and paved the potholes that would be a perk
I don’t want to spend 90 minutes, trying to get home from work

I want my kids to be safe in school, focused on learning what to do right
Don’t want to worry about drugs and sex, or knives and gangs or how to fight

There is one more thing I ask of you, please take away the ever-growing garbage isle
The flies, the garbage, the fires, aren’t good for us, even better what about recycling that pile?

Instead of more taxes, no water, crime, traffic, garbage and pigs all around,
I want real solutions to these problems to be found

I used to think that I did not have to ask for this, it was part of my citizens’ rights you see
If this is a preview of what Country St. Maarten will be like, I really wonder how supportive I can be

The government always blamed Curacao for everything that went wrong everywhere
Take the federal government away and we can see what is going on here

Country St. Maarten was supposed to make everything better for me and you
But even I know when things are much too good to be true

A True Believer in Santa Claus