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I sane ... We sane ... Usain
published: Sunday | August 24, 2008


Contributed
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's 100-metre final in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Yuh ever see anything like this before?

XXIX Olympiad has become instant folklore

All debate has been decided

The dust has finally settled

The doubters have been answered

And it's Usain Bolt by a canter

Eight to the start

Caribbean six including Jamaica three

And so we get ready,

as they go down on their knees

Then before you could count to ten

lighting struck and struck again

Bolting from the blocks,

the 21-year-old stopped the clock,

registering an inhuman time

of nine point six nine

Mi pinch miself

Mi shake mi head fast right and slow left

Mi aks mi wife, if it mek sense.

Mi question mi perception, 'Yuh sane?'

Yuh noh see Usain!?

How him dash down the lane!?

Not even bullet from the starter's pistol

cudda ketch him frame

One beat to the chest

and arms open wide

Bolt had struck with the speed of light

Mi cudden believe mi eyesight!

Six foot five inches mek a mighty zap

And as dem seh inna Jamdung, 'dat was dat'.

But before mi cudda gather mi nerves

(just before him turn 22)

Him turn the 200 curve

Nineteen point three zero is the record anew

By now mi beside miself

Ah talk to me like mi ah smaddy else

Usain flying in the Bird's Nest

Gwaan my yute, beat yuh chest

Mek mi tell yuh something again

Shelly, Sherone Simpson, Stewart

Put the 'S' above dem heart

Cause dem ah true patriot

Mek mi tell yuh something again

Melaine Walker is a runner

A hurdler and world beater

Mek mi tell yuh something again

Children of the Black, Green and Gold

Have beaten the world and taken nuff gold

No problem ... dance the 'nuh linga'

Big up Jamaica!

Heavenly Dad

We thank you for what you have done

Giving us these great Jamaican daughters and sons

Asafa, Frater, Sherica and Veronica ah big name

All their God-given talents

have given a holiday to our brain.

- Austin & Vivette Henry

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