True love, in this life, is hard to find and twice harder to get over. For anytime you put all your trust and love into someone, this is your assurance that they will break your heart and it possibly changes or damages you forever.

I was in this situation a few years ago, and it was damaging. I had an unfortunate experience with love and I write about it now because; I feel by putting it all down on paper, I let go of my pain, hurt and disappointment. I pray in return for letting go; it will let go of me so that I can possibly get some peace and put it to rest.

Kellon and I grew up together on the same street. Our families knew each other. He was two years my junior, and a friend since we were little.

Life is always about giving rather than taking. From the very foundation of the world God made man and gave Him a garden to tend to. He then gave him animals. Then God saw that all that was good. However, in the midst of that, He realizes that the man was alone and so He gave him a woman.

Later we learnt again that God gave His only begotten Son to die for our sins. Falsely accused, striped and shamed, beaten and torn, he bore our pain. Then lifted on a cross with nails in His hands, He gave his life so we could live.

Sir Ronald Sanders

But, his election has created unreasonable hopes amongst many simply because he is half-black. Evidence of this has been the official statements of several Caribbean governments that they expect the US government to pay more attention now to the development needs of their countries.

On the morning after the elections, when asked by the Caribbean Media Corporation for a comment on what the Caribbean could expect from an Obama victory, I said the following:

"Obama's election will bring no new and special attention to the Caribbean. His priorities will be righting an American economy gone wrong, fulfilling his promise to take US troops out of Iraq, settling Afghanistan, improving a cooperative relationship with a resurgent Russia and managing a difficult trade and economic relationship with China.

"Given the $900 billion hole in the US Treasury that followed the bail out of US financial institutions, some of his own domestic campaign pledges will have to be delayed. In this connection, the Caribbean - except for Haiti and Cuba - will not be a priority.

Like a Hollywood blockbuster whose conclusion feels assured but still sets the heart racing, the endgame of this election has gripped black America with a powerful mixture of emotions.

Obama's potential victory represents a previously unimaginable triumph over centuries of racism. But beneath the hope and pride lies fear: of polling inaccuracy, voting chicanery, or the type of injustice and violence that have historically stymied African-American progress.

Cooper, 75, experienced the oppression of the 1950s and '60s as she was dragged off to jail for protesting segregation in Wilmington, Del., where her husband was DuPont's first black chemist. Now living in the Southwest, she said she experienced modern politics when her husband lost a recent bid to become their city's first black mayor after the election was switched to mail-in ballots rather than polling-place voting.