In this final guest blog for National Reconcilian Week 2012, the often challenging and always inspiring Steven Oliver comments on recognition with the question... what if?
WHAT IF
WHAT IF
As I sit, I have a thought
What if truth was really
taught?
What if books didn’t glorify
The time when Captain Cook
arrived?
What if they instead told us
That Terra Nullius was unjust
That he never had no right to
claim
This great land in Great
Britain’s Name
Would there be more of
empathy?
Would understanding come to
be?
Would we no longer have to
fight
For that which is just simply
right?
Would all our voices have a
say?
Would recognition find its
way?
Would media start to be kind
That to a tale there is two
sides
And start a turning of the
tides
Where people come and share
with us
Our pain and say enough’s
enough
My head so full of many “What
ifs?”
I cannot help but wonder this
And start to dream one day
I’ll see
My “What ifs?” a reality
© Steven Oliver
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