This Is Our Code
This land has been ours
since anyone can remember.
We are born here
and here we die.
Our families
are joined
by kinship and clan.
We live, work and worship
together.
No one can take
our language away,
our culture, our community
our heart.
The songs that we sing,
our stories, our ways
were given
to us by the
land.
Every word
of our tongue
a bridge;
every word
a sacred trust
we will not break.
Let every generation remember:
this is our
code.
© Patrick O’Neill 2010. All rights reserved
