TRUST ME (AUSTRALIA DAY POEM)

AUSTRALIA DAY HAS BEEN AND GONE ONCE AGAIN,AND EVERY YEAR ITS THE SAME-THE WHITE "INVADERS" CELEBRATE,AND THE BLACK (INDIGENOUS)COMMISERATE.

WE BLAME THE ABORIGINALS
FOR BEING BLACK,FOR DRINKING.
BUT DID WE EVER THINK TO STOP
AND WONDER WAHT THEY'RE THINKING?
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO WE CAME
WITH SWORD AND GUN IN HAND.
DESTROYING,KILLING ALL IN FRONT
AS WE RAPED THEIR SACRED LAND.
WE TAUGHT THEM THAT THEIR WAY OF LIFE
WAS DIRTY,CRUDE AND WRONG
BUT STILL WE COULDN'T BREAK THEM,
THEIR LOVE OF OUR LAND TOO STRONG.
WE TAUGHT THEM HOW TO READ AND WRITE
GO TO CHURCHES,PRAY TO GOD.
WHILST WE ,IN OUR HEDONISTIC WAY
OVER THEIR VERY CULTURE TROD.
YES,WE TOOK THIS SUNBURNT COUNTRY
IN CRUEL,ONE SIDED FIGHTS.
NOT CARING FOR THEIR DREAMTIME,
NO BLACK COULD HAVE LAND RIGHTS.
BUT NOW,A TWINGE OF CONSCIENCE SHOWS,
WE WANT TO GIVE SOME BACK,
BUT THEY DON'T SEEM TO TRUST US,
OUR BROTHERS,FRIENDS,OUR BLACKS.