TREATY

A treaty is a dreaming waking

A history in making

A Commonwealth returning taking

OZ dishonest from its very making

Makarrata spoken as solemn promise

Known still as Hawke’s broken office

A Treaty is John Batman on Wurundjeri land

Van Diemen’s land taking a stand

Instead of condemned and damned

Promises whispered have disappeared
like writing in sand.

A treaty is complexion and injury accounted

First nation founded

Uluru from the heart of mother creation

A rewrite of imitation,

Australia Playing infant to Mother nation

Mateship unforged from solace

History turning from broken promise

Makarrata is law with lore

No restriction tame,

No defame and colour shame

A return to ancient name

Infinite knowledge reclaimed

Past, present and future regained

Truth telling and myth dispelling

A healing of pain and sorrow

Building children with futures

Looking forward to tomorrow

Self Determination for the generations

A treaty is people side by side

A Treaty is true blue pride

Unstifled, unrifled,

The start to ending a vicious cycle

A treaty is a nation complete

A new dawn we can all greet

A common ground we can all meet

A treaty is a decision breaking division

Infinity in its revision

LIVING THE DREAMING