Dear Keshorn,
I stuck around in front of the TV because they had to interview you after the event and I wasn't missing out on that either.
Only an hour before I had heard about us Trinis bashing our Olympians in Rio, going as far as even writing the team, messaging their disappointment to members who were representing us.
Surely not?
Then you mentioned the negativity in your interview and I wanted to burst into tears. The joy left me for a minute, and I felt this deep pain and discomfort. The incredulous anger seeped in; the realisation that we just don't know what we have with these sportsmen and women!
We don't deserve these fine citizens, and we certainly do not deserve to walk among them!
Keshorn, bronze is beautiful. And I'd like you to know that even if you did not step up on to that podium that day, you are a man of certain beauty.
The rest of us could only strive to be so, inside and outside.
My thanks for the glory you have given us all, from the very bottom of my red, black and white heart.
Kathryn Stollmeyer Wight