Land of my heart, my country
How I wish it were otherwise
Beneath your blue, blue skies
Terrible deeds were done, and denied
Papered over with wafer-thin lies
Land of my soul, my country
Your song once strong lies silent
Hidden in a secret story
Told today only in whispers
Land of my dreams, my country
How we need your embrace
Made only possible
Through the very ones on whom we projected
Our own disgrace
Land of my fathers, my country
There is no other way to be whole
Than walk together the path of true history
The story that was never told
Land of my heart, my country
Yours is a story of unfinished nationhood
Of Aboriginal nations’ sovereignty never ceded
Of Treaty never understood
© Graeme Cordiner