Brown eyes that have known many summer’s past.
The parade of life through generations.
Loved, all loved with a maternal heart
from lullaby to grave.
Brown eyes that cried a million tears;
heart rent; injustice visited upon injustice.
Still longing to see a new dawn of hope.
restoration; peace; flourishing.
Brown eyes steeped in the older ways
of richness, culture, form and ceremony.
Of dreaming; of the land and of ancestors.
A rich living history.
Brown eyes that know the power of tradition;
that passing on brings hope, forms identity.
Place-name, dreaming, old souls breathing life.
Elders honoured, culture cherished.
Brown eyes reveal a beautiful soul;
honoured, loved, adored.
For all that wisdom has ever known
is held here and revered.
For Aunty Pat
A true warrior is not a tough, hard person.
Rather, it is someone whose love for what they fight for
exceeds any challenge.
Pat Waria-Read is a Narungga Woman and Aboriginal Elder active in the Port Adelaide Region in Adelaide, South Australia.
You can read more about Aunty Pat at the following link:
Paul Russell: Musings 