In The Flat Old Countryside

A brown to green old countryside out there Quite similar one would not see anywhere Cattle and sheep in fenced paddocks flat and wide Where once the Dreamtime people did reside In this countryside that could do with more trees They lived and fished and hunted and had their corroborees Till the paler foreigners that came from a distant shore Did change their ways of life for evermore But most things change and few things one could name Through the centuries of time do stay the same And who is to say in a hundred years from now In this countryside there may not be a sheep or cow Or marsupial, bird or even human being that would not be strange Since we are in the age of Climate Change.