James Fraser Poet Rhyme

Stolen Generations

Federal and State agencies
For nearly one hundred years
Removal of children
Many families feared
 
Even Church Missions
Got in on the game
The taking of children
That they had no right to claim
 
Reasons were varied
To why this was done
As they knock on their doors
And a point of their guns
 
Miscegenation
White racial purity
The take of the kids
Family obscurity
 
The Half-caste acts
An outright disgrace
To creates these laws
When it's not their place
 
Project yourself back
One hundred years
If they were your kids
Do you feel their fears
 
13th of February 2008
A date in time, for these children to wait
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
A formal apology, to the Stolen Generations above.


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Nicole Sharon Brown July 19, 2009 at 11:59 PM Great eye opener! Children are precious and you speak the truth in this one! Write on brother! Write on!

John Loving Iii July 16, 2009 at 3:06 PM everything comes to the light just like the bible says. it's up to us to point it out so that others will studie the situation and learn how to avoid the problem in the future. good work.jhl

Daver Austin July 16, 2009 at 2:26 PM I don't know any of the particulars, but what a sad thing to live in a society where the taking of children seems necessary. Nice illumination. daver

Sara Kendrick July 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM Interesting writing. I've seen on TV how at one time Aboriginies in Australia were taken to be educated in schools of th Europeans. The same was done to Indians in America. Sara