A Migrant In This Land I'Ll Always Be

They had lived here for sixty thousand years or maybe more Before the first white sailors moored their boats and came ashore Illegal migrants without passports to show Two centuries and two decades ago. From these volcanic cliffs they looked out on the sea On this wild beauty that captivates me For centuries with Nature they had lived in harmony A migrant in this land I'll always be. They fished and hunted in the smoke free air And sea and land life was abundant everywhere And of conservation they were so aware But creatures once plentiful are now becoming rare. They were the care takers of this Southern Land And the needs of Nature they did understand But when white men and women with their children ventured south To the detriment of Nature change they brought about. Their attitude to the environment compared to ours made far more sense But since white invasion Nature has suffered ever since And i one from a land beyond the sea A migrant in their Land will always be.