Walk with me for a day

In today's heated emotions about what, if any lives matter, I suggest that this poem written by a member of the "first people" - 65 000 years of history in Australia - is worth reading.

Walk with me for a day

The colour of my skin your eyes do see

Pain dwelling deep within

Afflictions to experience is a mere dream

Walk with me for a day.

Souls of black Australia in the sea of mankind

Neither here nor there

Memories lost of tribal care

Walk with me for a day.

Share my dreaming of this great land

Grassroots problems where did they begin?

Please don’t criticize my countryman

Walk with me for a day.

History’s footprints linger within the depths of time

As its path of destruction lays a snare

Emotions deep in the valley of despair

Walk with me for a day.

Torn and battered weary souls fight on

Equality beats to the sound of progress roar

Reconcile and together we’ll learn

Walk with me for a day.

                                                                        Tania Con-Goo 2005