I write prophecy in poetry to live longer than I breathe
further than I can see and better than I could be
to touch the feet of eternity
and know my time to leave.
People will ignore everything
but not everybody
and this stream that begins from a mountain at sunrise
retains the knowledge of a thousand lives side by side
ancient tribes walk now with their children
marveling at the fantastic destruction
incredible disfunction
but we're now past the junction
of a coloniser's fate, for them it's too late
they cheated their own race
and those who walk at the pace of the world
as a koru unfurls
will live just long enough to see
the world of our destiny