Senior citizens carry this nation on their backs, like a burden they can only unload in death. When this nation was in its infancy, newly independent with that dream of freedom from Massa’s grasp, many were there with the hope and promise of what Guyana would be. Decades would pass and some of these senior citizens breathing the air of flaring and other pollutions of the environment and humankind, are perhaps faced with regret having been at the birth of a nation that in their lifetime they are yet to see be fully realised.
It is not only that some of the burdens they carried have been inherited by their children. Like the fact that they were not successful in fully uniting this nation, where ethnicity issues are still seen among the people and are a feature in the political cesspool where corruption and discrimination thrive. It is not only that their children and them are now crying over cost of living since COVID-19 and the influx of immigrants and the worsening global crisis where the minority rich grow richer and the majority poor continue to scramble and dream.