by Nada Amine Awar
Aboriginals inhabited the land
They lived hand in hand
No land property
No hunger no poverty
Take what you need
To sustain life with no greed
Inhabitants of the continent
Were simply slaughtered
It was not an accident
It was a demand
With the colonizers nothing mattered
The lands they stole
Deprived a whole
Aboriginal population
From life continuation
They owned, divided and ruled
An economy they goaled
Environmental degradation
Social disintegration
Is what they got
From their plot
Their economic fortune
Is to float in the ocean
Sea level is rising
Completely disguising
Life is threatened
Existence is a ring
Break it to lose everything
Colonizers must understand
Life sustainability
Is an aboriginal ability
From:
An original poem in English by Nada Amine Awar
Copyright ©:
Nada Amine Awar
Last updated June 18, 2015