The New We

And I don’t think the debate will cease - not in a 

whimper anyway - altho’ we endured what must 

be agreed’s another seminal expression of grief; 

They called it ‘Invasion Day’. Symbolism at best 

stripped of the rhetoric you’d usually associate - 

although even it’s frittered away who’s wronged 

We are all guilty if continuing along that old path; 

it only leads back to th’ strife of an origin no less 

auspicious than that defined in a peer’s rejection 

Yet naturally we’ll beg to differ; first up, as we’re 

Aussies, it wasn’t originally us who perpetuated 

those misdeeds, & we know who to blame, but 

It seems easier to ride the beast than try & tame 

its predilections tainting th’ meaning of Australia 

Day; & there’s a raw 113 years of th’ old regime 

But of course, if we haven’t modified our beliefs 

from th’ Original Mob - then the thief’s flown the 

coup - & the ‘New We’ flounders in age-old mire 

However I’d be surprised if it’d stay that way for 

ever more - already shame’s shared equally and 

ideas express unity in what Australia Day means 

© 27 January 2018, I. D. Carswell