Australia Day Stralia

[Well, I might add, this was written the day after the official stralia day, but I think it adds a touch of humour to the poem lol, it is quite nice, laughing at oneself, kind of like having an unbirthday, and why the heck not!? And a nice way to end it…and of course i hope it makes a certain someone laugh….]

Gird on all sides by hate, round about this day,

If I could stand up, forget about hate, on this spot I’d make,

I’d stand up tall for love, you g, a monument,

Australia day sentiment hosed into the soil like waste

Technocratic bureaucracy turned over to the Author of Land and Time Eternal of youth,

Where love is a kingdom, there hidden in this landscape, I’ve become,

And thru her waters recycled, give you a petal of love, a piece of my heart held in soil, soul ensouled in landscape,

A legal alien in Australia and now cast down, I’ll declare loves call come to forgive what is imperfect and human,

Because love, in your human shape, g,

So consumed into hate by others, tho is loving you here – the transformation become – to turn Stralia day into a day of forgiveness and love,

This land that bears your name, Monument of Longing in its court I’ll conjure,

And hate which lurks on every side

Is nothing, no thought, many clouds never bearing rain returning to never-clouds,

Puffs of nothing that wash away in the oceans True waters, rinsed to bearing,

The soil Eternal youth in your Truth all remaining, under foot the kingdom for you all I see,

My home is with you, now, my love, this day to me, bears your name forever more, g

Now I’ll put it on my calendar, it’s not even Australia day, it’s Stralia, of course!