Midweek Review
Lone Voice of Reason
By Lynn Ockersz
There’s this ‘narrative’,
In the ‘Isle of Smug Smiles’,
That the time’s ripe,
To craft the epitaph,
Of the political opposition,
Now that the restive House,
By the idyllic waterway,
Is in the grip of a single party,
In all too familiar history,
But there’s a glowing example,
From the distant eighties,
When Sarath Muththetuwegama,
Lone Member of the CPSL,
Won the admiration of the country,
Through his inspiring speeches,
Clinching the timeless point,
That Quality is superior to Quantity.