Smiling, laughing and running free
an indigenous family as happy as can be,
Sitting and watching my children play
I smile, with no idea of the future day.

Blue skies and green trees
I thought we’d already been thrown to our knees
but they came again at midday
and they took my precious girls away.

I ran towards them screaming
hoping I’d be only dreaming
but he took them quickly, one by one
until he left all but none.

When things go wrong
who will keep them strong?
when I feel those fears
I can feel their tears.

I’m a failure to the ones I care for,
I’d walked straight into that obvious trap door.
I would try and try as hard as I can
but failed cause I’m brown and they’re tan.

Sitting and thinking I wouldn’t see them again
I felt it once more, that excruciating pain
but as soon as I heard they’d ran away
I smiled without hesitation or delay.

Waiting and waiting for something to hear,
still dealing with unbearable fear.
In that same place I sat for days
I would wait to hear of their ways.

The sound of the spirit bird
is the first and only thing I heard.
I stopped and tried to hear
cause I knew they were somewhere near.

I run to them screaming “they’re home at last!”
Without second thought I held them fast
smiling, laughing and again living free
a happy, reunited family are we.