With Love And Happy Birthday Stanley Victor Collymore!

Happy Birthday Son!

By Stanley Collymore

 

Few if any physiological conceptions whether leading to

failed or successful pregnancies and certainly none

that I know of were so meticulously planned as

this one! A pleasurable task undoubtedly

for me but even so somewhat circumscribed by the

urgency of your mother’s obsession in wanting

a son, having consecutively produced three

daughters: Andrea, unfortunately now

deceased, Lynne and Beverley, in

the preceding marriage she’d

intentionally relinquished

for her after that current

one, which evidently

did subsequently

in fact involve

her and me.

 

Unconcernedly, and to be exact, it didn’t bother me in

the least and discernibly as a matter of fact what of

the two genders you actually turned out to be, and

most especially so both from my own personal

perspective as well as expressly that within

my own family where my four sisters �"

respectively and just as proud of their

Barbadian ancestry, and themselves

like me intimately connected to Bajan culture and

society where nobody would ever be, as is so

asininely commonplace in British white,

Asian and Jewish communities even

remotely much less so decidedly

disposed and often exclusively

as well towards male gender, and other distinctly

ambiguous ones in between, preferences and

pre-eminence which then correspondingly

guarantee the prejudiced prolongation

of real female gender inequality �"

noticeably outnumbered in my

own family the unworried

lesser presence all-round

of my brother and me.

And in those given

circumstances your

gender was, and

still is, Stanley

of no germane

significance!

 

However, what was of significance to us, and as a family had

been so all along, was that when you eventually came into

this world after your stipulated nine months and two

weeks stint in your Mummy’s tummy, and like

the quintessential football striker, OK soccer

forward to the uninitiated, which you later

became in the English Premier League

and I must admit most impeccably

maintained in respect of your

birth with you promptly arriving on January 22^nd

of that year and somewhat providentially as

it happened preceding by two days the

anniversary date when your mother

and I initially met, was from my

family’s perspective and quite

predictably my own that on

putting in what was your

very first appearance so

long as your precious bits and pieces were perfectly

intact, functioning properly �" and appreciatively

from a father’s standpoint you’ve admirably

and competently established that over the

years �" you Stanley who truly were a

most welcomed and treasured baby

and with God’s gracious blessing

were also indisputably, robustly

and informally rudely in good

health that we as a family having collectively:

both privately and openly, surmised and

even anticipated all sorts of amazing

things for you are splendidly and

unapologetically pleased, I must

truthfully say; and on this I’m

not alone, even though you

decided to play football

rather than cricket, at

how you’ve tuned

out Son. And so

here’s wishing

you in closing

a genuinely

remarkable

Birthday!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

22 January 2016.

 

 

The Celebratory Thoughts of the Author of this Poem:

For the exquisitely charming, stunningly handsome, absolutely intelligent, physically adroit, spontaneously and incredibly articulate �" my God you haven’t half genetically inherited a plethora of truly outstanding characteristics from me (laugh) never mind the South Staffordshire accent that you acquired from childhood (smile) but who better than you in the circumstances to give it an uplifting standing.

 

Someone uniquely in British society that with breathtaking integrity, likewise like me, openly, forthrightly, honestly, rationally and intrepidly speaks his mind at all times regardless of who chooses to get offended by what you say.

 

Consequently, what can your biological family including me wish for you on this your special day, and furthermore express to you who have everything going for you, outside continued excellent health coupled with traditional and renowned Barbadian longevity? Except to say we’re all immensely proud of you and additionally would like to suggest that you carry on conscionably giving the surfeit of morons out there the absolute hell they deserve; I know I shall!

 

In conclusion from your Barbados and British branches of the Collymore Family, our Diaspora across the Caribbean, in Guyana, Belize, Panama, the United States of America �" incidentally your first cousin there Jackie who you were inseparable from when you were both kids and she at the time lived in Reading with her parents prior to my sister, her mother, and my brother in law, her father, migrating with her to America has specifically asked that I include her in this birthday tribute dedicated to you; so too your second cousins, also originally from Reading England, and other close relatives of ours in Canada �" and of course the growing Collymore family in Germany.

 

All of whom sincerely wish you a tremendously unforgettable birthday and many more of the same in the future. And as your father I wholeheartedly endorse their every sentiment!