LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
Well there it is, do
you see it, the sky?
An expanse so great
and perfectly still
It’s so very clear
and how very blue
Can this be, can this
really be true?
Maybe this is a dream,
I wonder will it go away?
No, this sky is mine,
all mine, always mine it will be
It has always been
there, above this great land
All we need do is
look up, and there it is to see
Goodness me it's free,
yes, and it’s always free
It lives just there
above us, just to look upward you see!
This wide flat land
we live on gives us wondrous things to keep
Just file this one in
memory and make the memory deep
Because this gift is
special, special in its own right
Even as it changes
from daylight into night
It’s called a perfect
sky and now we know why
It's our Australia,
where our land meets the sky
This ancient land of
our brothers, the mother of their birth
Brought the sky above
us down to meet the earth
As I look out of the
window from my hospital bed
I feel my wondrous sky
just nestling there above my head
So I close my eyes in
comfort and slowly go to sleep
Knowing in the
morning light, the sky is coming just above my head
It’s mine you see. When
I look at my sky it frees me from this bed
That’s what my sky does
for me.
Look up, you see? You
can have your own sky too!
Your very own sky
that frees the mind of all earthly things
S.W.T.READ 2013
