WERE THEY WRONG

Coming from a troubled realm

Where rights of man and hope were gone

Were they wrong to search for a promised land

When they sailed across the endless seas

For a better life for their families.

Where on a distant shore

In a strange new place

They cleared the ground and they settled down

And for their salvation they ‘Praised the Lord’

Through pain, hardship

And their rough toil

A better life was their reward

And so, with time, hereafter their Colony grew

And they ventured out to pastures new

 

Were they wrong, was it wrong?

When they cut down trees

And to build their homes

So, through the course of time

Their numbers grew

Spread out in the townships too.

 

Were they wrong? so wrong

For they wanted more

And so, went out to search, explore

To a world untamed, not seen before

And they found gold

Yes gold! Yellow gold

 

The People of this promised place

They watched these men of foreign face

Come desecrate their sacred bounds

Their tribal sites and their hunting grounds

What should they do but retaliate

 

Were they wrong?

To fight for their Territory

To preserve their pride and their dignity

And drive them back to the ocean shore

 

And so it was, that the wars began

That struck fear into the heart of every man

Until all as one, they prayed ‘Dear Lord

Please spare us from this savage horde’.

 

Where they wrong?

 

 

 

Rodd Sherwin

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