A response to the appointment of Tony Abbott as Special Envoy of Indigenous Affairs by the newly self-elected Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison 29 August, 2018.
There are bushfires burning in my eyes

I am burning down the modern world

I am burning your invasion of me

I am burning the image of you

You are all burning on my pyre
I am burning your prejudice of me

I am burning your paternalism

I am burning your policies

I am burning your excuses

I am burning your greed
I am burning your lack of understanding

I am burning your refusal to acknowledge that

I am burning your insults and beratings

I am burning your reaction to this poem

There are bushfires burning in my eyes
My Mother the land is crying

My Mother is crying with beauty

My Mother is crying with sadness

I am crying for all my mothers

We are crying for our land
Our tears are embers unable to quell

There has been no lull in you

There will be no lull in me

I am burning down the modern world

There are bushfires burning in my eyes