Woranora Dam

We used to go up there 

Us kids 

To the big dam 

Thinking the name was all wrong

The grey cement 

Wasn’t sacred

Like Wooloonora -

Black rock 

Was. 

I said - they can 

Dam the rivers 

Rape the pride 

Of our land

Of our today

Of our tiny bodies 

Of our starry eyed 

Tomorrows 

But she will still 

Run like the wind 

And he will still sing 

Like the birds do 

And I will still love enough 

To dance the call of 

Uluru 

Red as fire

Solid as gold 

Tweety tweet your 

Gameshow goop

Star spangled banners 

And all the hoopla 

Of nothing much to show for it

Because 

I walked to Uluru 

When I was just a girl 

I would have walked to the moon if I could 

I would have danced across a thousand stars 

I would have grown a pair of wings 

Flown to the brave Liions heart of

The Litani River for them. 

I would have danced the tarantella 

With a trillion spiders at my veins 

Just to say, even this is not enough 

To show what love is

So much bigger than hate

Than rape 

Than greed 

Than goodbye 

I did all that in my heart. 

Nothing said can take 

Those feelings.

I still have them. 

They are mine

But the land she is 

Everyone’s.

She is, he is, they are 

Not owned, not borrowed, not forgotten 

But loved as though 

Loved without letting go 

But loved as though 

Loved in the spirit of Woolonora 

Black rock- solid and covered in glints of silver 

Like those stars I would dance on 

come down 

To rest 

And heal our wounds 

Forever.