Out of Debt
"Out of Debt" by Claude McKay celebrates the quiet joy of a family that has survived a modest Christmas without falling into debt. Told in warm Jamaican dialect, the poem follows a husband and father who sits light-hearted beside his wife and laughing baby, unburdened by credit or worry. Where others stretch their purses thin to make the season bright, this family finds deeper richness in freedom from obligation — a lesson crystallised in the image of a blind old man playing flute with a child at his knee.
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