#549 - heal country

 

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heal country

NAIDOC week, 2021

 

the heart is speaking again

                   who’ll listen?

who’ll sign up for heart?

 

skin and sun and country for flag

who will tell the stars?

 

remember

make memorial

not far away

but here!

 

the country a poem

the country a song

the country a story

            needs to resolve

 

remember the lost, the stolen, the scarred

mourn the great theft we all possess

(some more than others though)

 

will you tell me who’s dreaming?               

 

a name plucked out of one dead language

could kill some hundreds more

 

nation and sovereign, the foreign flag

the head down and the eyes away

the ‘I didn’t do it’ or ‘everyone did’

all this ‘don’t look at me’… adds up

                                               

have you seen how the wounds are growing?

do you know how they heal?

 

begin on the journey

let rivers run

respect fire

 

tell the old times

tell the country was

keep the old words remaining alive

 

we need all in for this

         and listen!

that’s the big first thing

 

hail flimsy hearts to hold all truth

 

will you tell me – who’s dreaming now?   

 

who’s afraid of the country’s core?

who’s afraid of the wisdom?

 

ask             

and be the question  

 

all are welcome here