Invocation

Invocation

It’s at Sam’s Creek, we make our pledge
For Te Waikoropupū walk the edge

And as Te Ra ascends the sky
We fix our eyes upon the prize

Our sacred taonga free at last!
From pollution’s dark and deadly grasp

We’ll not retreat! Nor backwards step!
We’re standing tall, and won’t forget

The ancestors who walk with us
And chant against the arsenic pus

That seeps, where tiny creatures stir
Within the giant aquifer

This is our time! We’ll win this fight!
Against the Fast Tracks, misspent might

So, join us in the final push
For Te Waikoropupū, plant & bush

We rise as one, we step on up!
Where tui sings and bellbird sups

 ~
Te Ra, The Sun